Three charged over cannabis in Bartica; man of 60 among them
Roger Simon, 60, Kean Cort, 36, and Lionel Mohamed, 62, appeared at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court on 19 September 2022 charged over cannabis found in separate police searches. Simon and Cort obtained $100,000 and $300,000 bail, while Mohamed was remanded to prison.
Roger Simon, 60, also called ‘Goat Man’, of Second Avenue, Bartica on the
Essequibo River, was charged on Monday 19 September 2022 with possession of
narcotics for the purpose of trafficking after he was found with 24 grams of
cannabis the day before.[1]He pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Crystal
Lambert at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court and was released on $100,000bail.[2]
Kean Cort, a 36-year-old cook of Yarrowkabra on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway,
appeared before Magistrate Lambert the same day on the same offence.[2]She
was granted $300,000 bail, and Guyana Times had reported four days earlier that
she was held with 353 grams of cannabis in a travelling bag at the Bartica
Stelling.[3]
Lionel Mohamed, 62, a resident of Beterverwagting on the East Coast Demerara,
was charged with two counts of the same offence after police said he was
arrested with 948 grams of cannabis and 55 grams of cocaine on Friday 16
September.[2]Mohamed pleaded not guilty to both charges and was remanded to
prison until Wednesday 12 October 2022 for statements, while the Simon and Cort
cases were adjourned to Friday 21 October 2022.[2]
The three appeared at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court, in a river town on the
Essequibo River in Region Seven, the Cuyuni-Mazaruni region.[1]
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The outlets differ on the charge: News Room says Simon and Cort faced ‘the same offence’ as Mohamed, while EAP News names possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.
Cort’s 353 grams comes from Guyana Times reporting on her arrest at the Bartica Stelling four days earlier; the court reports give no weight for her charge.
No outcomes of the 21 October 2022 or 12 October 2022 adjournments, and no later sentences, were found for any of the three.
The three cases are separate; figures give only Cort’s 353 grams as the cannabis weight, while Simon’s 24 grams and Mohamed’s 948 grams are described in the text but not added to it.
Mohamed’s 55 grams of cocaine was seized in the same case but is not cannabis and is excluded from figures.
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