SASCHA WIL­SON

Two men who were al­leged­ly in pos­ses­sion of a hand grenade, firearms, am­mu­ni­tion and mar­i­jua­na were each grant­ed $950,000 bail yes­ter­day.

Trevor Gee­ban, 34, of Boissiere Vil­lage, Mar­aval and Kadeem Weekes, 30, of East Dry Riv­er, Port-of-Spain ap­peared be­fore Siparia Se­nior Mag­is­trate Mar­garet Alert.

The men were ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force and Pe­nal CID dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Pe­nal on Sat­ur­day. It is al­leged that the of­fi­cers stopped and searched a grey Hyundai Tuc­son in which the men were trav­el­ling, around 11.40pm at Tul­sa Trace, San Fran­cique.

It is al­leged that the of­fi­cers found a hand grenade, a pig­tail buck­et con­tain­ing two Smith and Wes­son re­volvers, along with nine rounds of .38mm am­mu­ni­tion and 58 box­es con­tain­ing a to­tal of 1,450 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion.

The po­lice al­leged­ly found in the back seat a cro­cus bag with ten pack­ets of com­pressed mar­i­jua­na, weigh­ing 5.179 kilo­grammes said to have an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $51,790.

Gee­ban and Weekes who were al­leged­ly in the car were charged by PC Ri­ad Ho­sein, of the Pe­nal CID.

The charges in­clud­ed pos­ses­sion of a pro­hib­it­ed weapon, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion, pos­ses­sion of firearms and pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing.

Pros­e­cu­tor Starr Ja­cob ob­ject­ed to bail. Ja­cob al­so told the court that the De­fence Force ad­vised that they should pro­duce pho­tographs of the grenade rather than the ac­tu­al grenade as it is a high­ly sen­si­tive ex­plo­sive and dan­ger­ous item.

How­ev­er, the de­fence ob­ject­ed and re­quest­ed that the grenade be pro­duced dur­ing the tri­al. The mag­is­trate or­dered the ac­cused to re­port three times at a po­lice sta­tion.

They were rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­neys Mario Mer­ritt and Nera Ramdeen. The mat­ter was ad­journed to Sep­tem­ber 17.

In the same court, Pe­nal welder Kevin Ram­saran, 22, was jailed for 24 months af­ter he was found with a Glock pis­tol and 15 rounds of 9 mm am­mu­ni­tion. Ram­saran was dri­ving a Mit­subishi Pa­jero when he was stopped dur­ing a po­lice road­block at Field Road, Ben­nette Vil­lage, San­ta Flo­ra on Sat­ur­day.

Po­lice found the loaded pis­tol un­der a mat on the dri­ver’s side of the ve­hi­cle. He was charged by PC Bran­don Joseph of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force.