Brother and sister on cocaine charge after mom flees drug bust – court hears
After allegedly being abandoned by their mother at the scene of a cocaine bust, a brother and sister were yesterday brought before a city magistrate to answer a drug trafficking charge.
It is alleged that Tommaka Bobb-Semple, 21, and Dillon Bobb-Semple, 23, on April 21, at Cross Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, had 171 grammes of cocaine in their possession for trafficking. Both defendants denied the charge.
Police Prosecutor Shawn Gonsalves objected to bail being granted. He stated that the police had conducted a raid at Lot 68 Cross Street, Werk-en-Rust, where the drugs were found in the home. He told the court that when the drugs were found, the defendants’ mother, Odetta Bobb-Semple, ran away.
Attorney Adrian Thompson pleaded with the court to grant his clients bail, since Dillon had open heart surgery in February and is supposed to be on bed rest. The attorney added that Tommaka is also unwell, as she is epileptic and while she was at the Ruimveldt station she had several attacks.
Thompson mentioned that his clients’ mother did run away, as was stated by the prosecution, but dropped the narcotics before doing so. He noted that his clients accompanied the police to the station as a matter of procedure and he was surprised that they were being charged.
Nevertheless the siblings were remanded to prison and will return to court on May 8.