Barbados court charges pair over 39 kg of cannabis and cocaine
A New Orleans, St Michael couple appeared in Barbados' District 'A' Traffic Court charged with possessing and trafficking 194 grammes of cannabis and 233 grammes of cocaine, and the woman also faces charges over 39.15 kilogrammes of cannabis. Hewitt and Cornibert denied the cocaine and small cannabis counts, bail was set at $8 000 and $100 000, and they were due back in court on 28 June 2024.
🇧🇧 Marshall Gap, New Orleans, St Michael, Barbados
A man and a woman from 3rd Avenue, Marshall Gap, New Orleans, in the parish of
St Michael, appeared before Magistrate Alison Burke in Barbados’ District ‘A’
Traffic Court on cannabis and cocaine charges.[1]Rohan Hewitt, 41, and
Shekinah Shiaeka Cornibert, 37, denied possession, intent to supply and
trafficking of 194 grammes of cannabis valued at $970.[1]They also denied
possession of 233 grammes of cocaine valued at $11 650, on 12 December 2023.[1]
Cornibert faces a separate set of charges of possession, intent to supply and
trafficking of 39.15 kilogrammes of cannabis valued at $313 200, on the same
date.[1]She was not required to plead to that indictable offence.[1]
Hewitt was granted $8 000 bail, while a bail amount of $100 000 was imposed on
Cornibert.[1]The two were to return to court on 28 June 2024.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Charged
2
Cannabis
39.344 kg
Value (official estimate)
BBD 314,170
Agency type
Court
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (39.344 kg)
Activity
Possession, Sale
Charges
possession, intent to supply and trafficking of cannabis; possession of cocaine
The hearing date is not given; 12 December 2023 is the date on which the charges are said to have been committed, and the article was published on 19 December 2023.
No second outlet's account of this hearing was found, so the charges and bail amounts rest on one report.
The report does not say whether the cannabis was seized at an address, and no street value was given for the cocaine or for the larger cannabis haul separately; cocaine amounts are excluded from the tracker figures.
The report does not say what happened at the 28 June 2024 return date or at any later stage; no trial or outcome is recorded.
The article gives the value of the 194 grammes of cannabis and of the 39.15 kilogrammes separately, so the combined value recorded here is their sum.
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