Suspected drug trafficker, Andrew Morgan remanded for trafficking $3.5M in cocaine
Days after, Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) ranks arrested a suspected drug trafficker at his Lot 142 Ixora Avenue, Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD) residence, he was on Wednesday charged and remanded to prison.
52-year-old Andrew Morgan appeared before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Diamond/Golden Grove Magistrates’ Courts.
Morgan pleaded not guilty to the charge which stated that on June 27, 2022, at Eccles, Bank Demerara, he had in his possession 3.278 kilogrammes of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
He was remanded to prison until August 4, 2022.
According to reports, on the day in question, CANU officers acting on intelligence conducted a narcotics operation at Lot 142 Ixora Avenue, Eccles, East Bank Demerara.
A subsequent search of the said property was conducted in the presence of the defendant, which resulted in the discovery of a quantity of suspected cocaine, (27) 9mm rounds, one (1) .32 Taurus firearm, along with one magazine, and 25 matching .32 rounds.
He was then arrested and escorted to CANU headquarters along with the firearm, ammunition, and cocaine. The illicit drug has a street value of approximately GY $ 3.5million.
Andrew is the brother of convicted drug trafficker Peter Morgan, who was deported from the United States of America in 2015.
Peter was imprisoned in the USA for conspiring to import, possess and distribute five kilogrammes of cocaine between December 2001 and August 2003 into the United States.
