Six officers charged in biggest drug bust offered bail

Lawrence Humes

Six officers, including a Customs boatman, who were charged in connection with the landing of a drug plane on the Southern Highway on November thirteenth, were offered bail today. They were charged on Thursday with Abetment of a Crime for the Importation of a Controlled Drug by facilitating the landing of an aircraft with two thousand nine hundred and twenty-one kilos of suspected cocaine. But the bail granted today is for the initial charges of Possession of Unlicensed firearm and Ammunition.

Jacinto Roches

The charge which was brought against officers Lawrence Humes, Jacinto Roches, Vidal Cajun, Renel Grant, Nelson Middleton and Harold Usher came after the discovery of a single bullet inside an unmarked white van they were traveling in. The men were intercepted on the Southern Highway near its junction with the San Juan Road.

Vidal Cajun

Along with the single round police also found a number of items including battle dress, wet suits, GPS trackers and car batteries, leading them to believe that they orchestrated the landing and unloading of the King Air Beech Craft plane.

Renel Grant

Attorney for the men appeared at the Magistrate's Court this afternoon on their behalf and four of them were offered bail in the sum of eight thousand dollars each for possession of the unlicensed ammunition.

Nelson Middleton

Freedom however, remains a distant dream for Humes, Roches, Grant and Middleton as the additional charge levied upon them was for an indictable offense. But Cajun, who was not charged with the importation of a controlled drug, was able to meet bail by midday.

harold usher

Meanwhile the group's attorney Dickie Bradley is set to file a bail application for the remaining four cops.

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