BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nov 11, CMC – A magistrate has remanded into custody until December 8, this year, three men charged in connection with the seizure of nearly BDS$27 million (One BDS$=US$0.50 cents) worth of cocaine earlier this month.
The accused Michael Andrew Warde, 56, Michael Quitin Franklin, 35 and 37-year-old Ryan Alwyn Chichester, have been charged with possession of cocaine, trafficking cocaine and intent to supply cocaine following the seizure on November 2.
The court was told that the cocaine weighs 538.8 kilogrammes and has an estimated street value of BDS$26.9 million.
The three men appeared before acting Magistrate Shakeida Sealy in the District ‘A’ Criminal Court and they were were not required to plead to the indictable offences. The men have since been remanded to the Barbados Prison Service at Dodds.
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