By Saio Marrah
One Mohamed Lamin Kamara appeared before magistrate Mark Ngegba at the Pademba Road Court No.1 on Wednesday 11th October 2023 over alleged unlawful passion of a prohibited harmful drug known locally as kush weighing 20.3 grams.
Led in by Police Inspector Mabel Tarawally, the first prosecution witness, Inspector James Missalie, attached to the Anti-Drug Unit of the Ross Road Police Station said he was on duty on the 7th of September 2023, when he received intelligence about people selling the harmful drug at Texaco, Kissy in Eastern Freetown.
He said he led a team of police officers to the scene, where they found the accused with the substance suspected to be kush and that as soon as the accused saw them, he ran away but officers gave chase and arrested him.
Inspector Massalie also informed the court that the suspected kush was in a transparent plastic in possession of the accused.
He said they also searched the 38-year-old who has lost his job as a police officer and discovered four hundred and eleven new Leones (NLe 411) on him after which he was taken to the Ross Road Police Station.
During cross examination by Chernor Kamara, the witness agreed that one of the duties of police was to arrest, but however refuted the suggestion that the accused actually arrested other people with the suspected prohibited substance. He said the accused never told them that when he was arrested.
The former police officer faces one count of unlawful possession of Kush. The case continues on 18th October this year.
In another matter, a 24-year-old accused person, Abass Chernor Kamara, also appeared before the same court, accused of unlawful possession of the harmful prohibited substance, Kush.
Kamara, a resident of second bridge Gloucester Village, was allegedly arrested with thirty-three wraps of the substance believed to be kush.
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