By Racquel Porter
Attorneys representing the five men charged in connection with Jamaica's biggest drug bust will be applying for bail on November 11.
Collin Rickets, Clive Davis, Clayton Peart, Junior Haldane and Aubrey Sterling are charged with conspiracy to import cocaine, importing cocaine, possession of cocaine, trafficking cocaine and conspiracy to export cocaine.
Attorneys Lloyd McFarlane and King's Counsel Tom Tavares-Finson informed the court of their intention when the matter was called up in the Home Circuit Court on Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Tavares-Finson told the court that the matter, which was transferred from the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Court on Wednesday morning, had been set for bail application on Thursday.
Prior to adjourning the matter, presiding judge Justice Vinette Graham Allen ordered the defendants' antecedent history.
In the meantime, the court was told that the case file is incomplete.
The prosecution explained that the Communication Forensics and Cybercrime Division report, a DNA certificate, a further statement and a statement for an officer are outstanding.
In August, the police seized more than 5,500 kilogrammes of cocaine with a street value of US$76 million or nearly J$12 billion.
The arrests and seizure were made during an anti-narcotics operation by a team of police officers from the Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division in Havendale, St. Andrew.
It's reported that FNID officers, with support from the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch, raided a premises, resulting in the arrest of the men and the seizure of a number of knitted bags containing cocaine.
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