Christopher Thomas, STAR Writer
WESTERN BUREAU:
A 2010 drug-smuggling case involving a policeman and an airport employee has been put off to February 11 2015, following the defendants' appearance before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.
Vincent Saddler, a former police sergeant, is charged with conspiracy to export ganja; while Donovan Clarke, a former Sangster International Airport employee, is charged with possession and dealing in cocaine and conspiracy to export ganja.
It is alleged that on December 1, 2010, Saddler and Clarke were arrested during an operation by the Anti-Corruption Branch in relation to alleged narcotics trafficking between the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay and the Lester B Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Canada. Nine alleged co-conspirators were also arrested in Canada.
Attorney-at-law Dionne Maylor, who is representing Clarke, told presiding magistrate Carolyn Tie that Maxine Jackson, the assigned prosecutor from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), would not be in attendance to hear an application for Clarke's travel documents to be returned to him.
"This is the third time we have come here for his travel documents to be returned, and on each occasion, Miss Maxine Jackson from the DPP's office is unable to attend. She told me she was unable to attend today," said Maylor. "Mr Clarke said he no longer wishes to pursue the application," she added.
RM Tie subsequently extended the defendants' bails.
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