(Issue, Monday, August 22, 2016)
Sgt
Cherno Mballow, a police officer attached to the Mandinaba Police Station,
recently testified in the trial involving one Bubacarr Baldeh, accused of being
in possession of suspected drugs (cannabis).
In
his testimony, officer Mballow told the court that on 25 March 2015, he was at
the checkpoint together with NCA3 Ansu Jammeh, a narcotics control officer.
They
received tip-off information that there was a vehicle with registration number
0827 coming towards Brikama, and that there was a boy in the said vehicle
wearing a black shirt and having a black bag, which was containing suspected
cannabis.
Upon
the arrival of the said vehicle at the Mandinaba checkpoint, it was stopped by
him and NCA3 Ansu Jammeh and CPL Samateh.
ANC3
Jammeh went inside the vehicle and, under the seat of the accused person, there
was a black bag containing four bundles of suspected cannabis.
He
asked the accused person, Bubacarr Baldeh, who owned the said bag, and the
accused denied being the owner of the black bag.
There
was a lady inside the said vehicle, who confirmed to the officers that the
accused was the owner of the said bag.
The
accused was arrested, and the bag was searched in the presence of the accused
person, who was later taken to the drug squad office.
At
that juncture, prosecutor O.S. Jallow applied to tender the black bag and the
four bundles of suspected cannabis before the court, which was admitted without
any objection from the accused person, and it was marked as an exhibit.
The
case continues.
