The bail application for three of the five men charged in connection with last year's massive cocaine bust in Havendale, St Andrew has been postponed until May 29.
When the matter was called up, Justice Leighton Pusey, who is presiding in the Noel Maitland murder case, told attorneys Donnahue Martin and Tamara Dunbar that he's unable to hear the applications.
But Justice Pusey asked the attorneys if they were willing to submit written applications two days ahead of the hearing.
Both attorneys agreed.
Fifty-seven-year-old Clive Davis, 58-year-old Collin Ricketts and 42-year-old Clayton Peart were subsequently remanded.
Seventy-two-year old Junior Haldane and Aubrey Sterling were offered bail last December.
The men are to answer to charges of possession of cocaine, dealing in cocaine, trafficking cocaine and conspiracy following the $12 billion drug bust in August, the largest drug find on record.
Officers from the JCF's Firearms & Narcotics Investigation Division, accompanied by units from the Counter-Terrorism & Organised Crime Investigation Branch, raided the premises and seized several knitted bags containing cocaine.
Approximately 2,600 kilogrammes, or 5,569 lbs of the drug, with a street value of US$75.79, was allegedly found during a three-hour operation.
The police were reportedly acting on information when they went to the premises as the men were allegedly loading a bus with the bags of cocaine.
The men are to be tried on November 3.
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