Krys­tiana Sankar will be home for the hol­i­days af­ter she was fi­nal­ly able to se­cure bail at a Clerk of the Peace at the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

How­ev­er, her co-ac­cused in the $3.8 mil­lion West­moor­ings drug bust, Yan­nis Peb­bles Au­gus­tine and Jer­von Cole, were not so lucky as Mag­is­trate Aden Stroude re­fused to re­duce their bail fig­ure dur­ing their reap­pear­ance in court yes­ter­day.

In fact, Cole, who was de­nied bail last Mon­day due to the court’s in­abil­i­ty to ver­i­fy his res­i­den­tial ad­dress, was placed on an even hefti­er fee of $6.2 mil­lion af­ter his ad­dress was con­firmed.

That fig­ure stood at $200,000 more than the orig­i­nal $6 mil­lion bail Sankar and Au­gus­tine were placed on by Stroude last week Mon­day.

The fourth ac­cused, At­i­ba Eligon, was de­nied bail out­right as he had two pre­vi­ous drug con­vic­tions against his name.

Sankar se­cured bail short­ly be­fore 4 pm af­ter her par­ents suc­cess­ful­ly filed us­ing two prop­er­ties to cov­er the $6 mil­lion cost.

Her at­tor­ney Lar­ry Williams had suc­cess­ful­ly ap­plied for bail vari­a­tion to al­low for two deeds to be used to se­cure bail last Thurs­day, al­low­ing her par­ents to be­gin the process to se­cure her bail, which fi­nal­ly suc­ceed­ed yes­ter­day.

In the hear­ing yes­ter­day, Stroude al­so al­lowed the two-deed stip­u­la­tion for Au­gus­tine and Cole. How­ev­er, Au­gus­tine’s at­tor­ney Samuel Pe­te Thomas said de­spite the ad­just­ment his client was not like­ly to se­cure bail. He told Guardian Me­dia af­ter­wards that a hear­ing be­fore a High Court judge may be re­quired to ad­just the bail fig­ure.

Au­gus­tine, a life­guard and swim coach, had no pre­vi­ous crim­i­nal of­fences on her record. Sankar sim­i­lar­ly had no crim­i­nal record while Cole had two road traf­fic of­fences to his name.

Sankar, Eligon, Cole and Au­gus­tine were charged with the pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing and pos­ses­sion of co­caine for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing fol­low­ing a drug bust at Re­gent Gar­dens, West­moor­ings on De­cem­ber 4. Sankar was al­so charged with pos­ses­sion of a gun and am­mu­ni­tion.

Some $3.8 mil­lion worth of drugs ($3.4 in mar­i­jua­na and $400,000 in co­caine) was seized in that raid.

The four are ex­pect­ed to reap­pear in on Jan­u­ary 8, 2019.