UPDATE: Colombian on drug charges remanded Loop Barbados

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The content originally appeared on: Barbados News

[Update: 2pm, August 10, 2022]

Oswaldo Aroca was not required to plead and has been remanded to HMP Dodds.

[Original story: 7:36am, August 10, 2022]

The man caught at a “stash house” with over BBD $21million worth of marijuana has been formally charged.

Police of the Narcotics Division have arrested and formally charged Colombian NationalOswaldo Rafael Acosta Aroca.

The 58-year-old of #20 De Octubre, Santa Marta, Columbia, was caught when police executed a warrant on August 2, 2022, on intelligence garnered through working with the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service. Aroca is charged for the following offences:1. Unlawful Possession of Cannabis 2. Trafficking Cannabis 3. Possession with Intent to Supply Cannabis 4. Disembarking without the consent of an Immigration Officer 5. Entering Barbados other than a port of Entry

He is scheduled to appear at the District ‘B’ Magistrates’ Court today, Wednesday August 10, 2022.

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