Peter Morgan denied bail again, returns to court tomorrow
Kaieteur News
March 20, 2007
A Trinidad court, yesterday, again denied bail to Peter Morgan, the Guyanese who was nabbed in the twin-island Republic two Fridays ago, and who United States authorities claim is part of a drug trafficking ring.
Kaieteur News understands that yesterday's session was held in chambers, and that Morgan is to return to court tomorrow.
The Guyanese was denied bail when he made his first court appearance on March 13, and his attorneys had indicated that they would have made another attempt to have him released, pending the outcome of his case.
Morgan was arrested by drug enforcement agents at Piarco International Airport while he was an in-transit passenger en route to Guyana, having travelled from Panama earlier in the day.
The prosecution indicated that the substantive warrants would be in place by May 7 and the court rejected a bail application on the ground that Morgan has no ties to Trinidad and Tobago.
Morgan's attorneys had argued that the arrest was made in T&T instead of in Guyana.
Morgan was arrested on a provisional warrant which, under a treaty signed by the United States and Trinidad & Tobago, allows the authorities in the latter territory to detain him for up to 60 days.
He is being prosecuted for conspiring with three people to distribute cocaine in the United States. The three were identified as David Narine, his wife, Susan Narine, and a Chinese national, Hung Fung Mar.
Narine and his wife were arrested with cocaine in the United States, and are currently being prosecuted.