Four lawmen accused of facilitating the landing of a drug plane on the Southern Highway in November have finally gotten bail. They appeared in the Supreme Court before Justice Herbert Lord where they were represented by Dickie Bradley Simeon Sampson and Ellis Arnold.
They are: Customs Officer Harold Usher, Police Corporal Renel Grant, Police Corporal Lawrence Humes, Police Corporal Nelson Middleton and Police Sergeant Jacinto Roches.
They are charged with the importation of a controlled drug by facilitating the landing of an airplane and were released on bail of fifty thousand dollars each today.
The condition for bail is that they are to appear in the Southern District sessions of the Supreme Court on November eighth, that they surrender all travel documents and they report to the police twice weekly.
On November 13th. a plane loaded with at least two-thousand, six hundred kilos of cocaine landed on the Southern Highway. 6 lawmen: 5 police and one customs were arrested miles away; police concluded that they were directly involved - based on the equipment they were found with and other information.
