UPDATE: A Barbadian lawyer and a Guyanese man remanded to Dodds

Former police officer, now attorney-at-law, George Adolphus Bennett and a Guyanese co-accused have been remanded to Dodds until August 13 in connection with over $2 million worth of illegal drugs.

Sixty-year-old a Bennett, of No. 103, 1st Avenue, Warners Gardens, Christ Church and 33-year-old Guyanese Dharma Rudradeo who was staying at the same address are jointly charged with possession, trafficking and possession with intent to supply 253 kilogrammes worth of cannabis. The offences are alleged to have occurred on July 30.

The illegal substance has an approximate street value of BDS$2 020 000.00

Bennett is also charged with the offences of obstructing and assaulting police officers in the execution of their duties; resisting lawful arrest; unlawful possession of ammunition exceeding the amount permitted and failing to deliver up police articles in the form of a Police Identification card.

They appeared before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes this afternoon in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court.