SRP’s father pleads guilty to ganja possession; cultivation

Special Reserve Police officer Osalade Carter, her 65-year-old father Anthony Carter, and her common-law husband Travis Todd, appeared in the Scarborough Magistrates’ court Monday charged with having and cultivating marijuana.

SRP Carter and Todd, parents of two children, pleaded not guilty to the charges before Magistrate Brian Debideen. They have no previous or pending convictions. They are to return to court at a a later date.

Meanwhile, Anthony Carter pleaded guilty to having ten calabashes with marijuana inside a room in his house. He was fined $9,000. He also pleaded guilty to cultivating marijuana in 22 buckets. He told Debideen that he grows the marijuana for religious and medicinal purposes. Anthony was previously charged for having marijuana in 1999, 2003 and 2005.

According to police reports, around 2pm on Friday last, members of the Tobago Task Force and other police officers executed a warrant at Carter’s home at Union Village, Plymouth Road.

Allegedly present were Osalade Carter, 31, who works with the Inter-Agency Task Force and lives at Maloney Gardens, Trinidad, and 30-year-old Todd, an offshore worker from Petit Valley, Trinidad.

Police said when they approached the fenced yard, they saw Carter tending to several marijuana plants and they arrested him. They then searched his house and found dried marijuana in a room.

In an unrelated matter, another policewoman woman police officer who was arrested last Friday after marijuana was reportedly found at her home, was released from police custody without charges being laid. The officer, who is attached to the Crow Point police station, was arrested at her Mason Hall home which she shares with her common-law husband. Reports are that the female office said she had no knowledge of the marijuana at her home, which was backed up by a statement from her husband.

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