Good Hope three appear briefly in court
Stabroek News
January 28, 2003
The three men held in December by the army allegedly with a cache of arms and ammunition on the Good Hope Public Road made a brief appearance at the Sparendaam Magistrate's Court yesterday.
Magistrate Jerrick Stephney had ordered on their first appearance that yesterday's hearing would have just been for a report from the prosecution. However, the court was told yesterday that the jackets for the case are with the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Shaheed Khan, Haroon Yahya had each been placed on $500,000 bail while policeman Sean Belfield was asked to post $450,000, when they first appeared before Stephney on January 15. The three men stand jointly charged for unlawful possession of firearms and unlawful possession of ammunition. According to the prosecutor's case on December 4 at Good Hope the men had in their possession a quantity of unlawful high-powered firearms and ammunition. Belfield is also on two additional charges of unlawful possession of firearm and ammunition. The prosecutor's case is that on the same day Belfield had in his possession one Glock pistol and six 9mm rounds. He pleaded not guilty to the two charges.
The army had also found in the blue Ford open-back pick-up a police identification card, a laptop computer capable of intercepting cellular calls and a plan of the city. Nothing has been said in court about the computer. Attorneys-at-law, Vic Puran and Glenn Hanoman are representing the trio who will return to court on Friday.
