{"id":30057,"date":"2013-01-09T08:32:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=30057"},"modified":"2013-01-09T08:52:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:52:27","slug":"accused-to-face-drug-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/01\/accused-to-face-drug-charge","title":{"rendered":"Accused To Face Drug Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18717\" title=\"judges-gavel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/judges-gavel-e1330701884672.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"186\" \/>Twenty-year-old Justin Turnquest was charged, along with 26-year-old Derez Cartwright, on one count of drug possession with the intent to supply and two counts of possession of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>It is claimed that on November 26, 2011 the two men were in possession of 130 pounds of Indian Hemp and six live rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>Turnquest will begin his defence before Deputy Chief Magistrate Carolita Bethell on January 16 concerning the charge of possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply.<\/p>\n<p>Cartwright&#8217;s early admission of guilt and claim of ownership of the narcotics and ammunition led Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez to give him the minimum possible sentences &#8211; four years at Her Majesty\u2019s Prison.<\/p>\n<p>Turnquest pleaded not guilty, but the prosecution did not withdraw the charges against him, as they did for the third initial defendant, Alicia Cartwright. Turnquest&#8217;s lawyer argued that there was no case but Deputy Chief Magistrate Bethell ruled that Turnquest had a case to answer and adjourned the trial to January 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Chief Magistrate Carolita Bethell has ruled that prosecutors have produced enough evidence to proceed with a trial against a 20-year-old man on a 130 pound drug possession charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[151,31,67],"class_list":["post-30057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}