A 49-year-old Ch­agua­nas man was grant­ed $5 mil­lion bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with traf­fick­ing near­ly five kilo­grammes of co­caine.

High Court Mas­ter Whit­ney Franklin grant­ed bail to Floyd Brath­waite, a self-em­ployed labour­er of Rail­way Road, for the of­fence, which al­leged­ly oc­curred on Sun­day.

Po­lice stat­ed that four rec­tan­gu­lar pack­ages con­tain­ing a white pow­dery sub­stance, be­lieved to be co­caine, were found in a car Brath­waite was dri­ving along Bal­main Road, Cou­va. The es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of the drugs is $6.9 mil­lion.

Ac­cord­ing to the state, Brath­waite has a pend­ing charge for pos­ses­sion of co­caine for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing, laid in 2015, as well as an on­go­ing mon­ey laun­der­ing case.

Po­lice op­posed bail on the ba­sis of these pre­vi­ous charges.

Brath­waite’s at­tor­neys, Bhi­mal Ma­hara­jh and Kavi­ta Moonasar, ar­gued that their client is pre­sumed in­no­cent un­til proven guilty.

In grant­i­ng bail, Franklin or­dered that Brath­waite re­side at his home un­til the mat­ter con­cludes, sur­ren­der his pass­port, and re­port to the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion every Mon­day, Wednes­day, and Fri­day.

The case has been ad­journed to Ju­ly 24, 2026, for a sta­tus hear­ing, with a suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing set for Sep­tem­ber 8, 2026.