The po­lice have ap­plied to re­voke the bail that was grant­ed to a 24-year-old Chi­nese na­tion­al ac­cused of metham­phet­a­mine traf­fick­ing. 

Dur­ing his first court ap­pear­ance on Au­gust 15, Hong Fei Wu was grant­ed $100,000 bail by Se­nior Mag­is­trate Armi­na De­onar­i­nesingh. 

When the case came up for hear­ing yes­ter­day, po­lice pros­e­cu­tor act­ing Cpl Ger­vais made an oral ap­pli­ca­tion for the bail to be re­voked for breach­ing the con­di­tions set by her. 

Cpl Ger­vais claimed that al­though Wu stat­ed that he re­sides and will con­tin­ue to re­side in Gulf View, La Ro­main, for the du­ra­tion of the case, in­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed that the prop­er­ty has been un­oc­cu­pied since March. 

Wu’s lawyer, Lar­ry Williams, has made an ap­pli­ca­tion to vary bail con­di­tions re­lat­ed to his ad­dress. 
Williams claimed that af­ter his first court ap­pear­ance, his client’s ad­dress was pub­lished by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS). 

“His ad­dress was in the news­pa­pers so he was scared for his safe­ty,” Williams said, as he claimed his client had al­ready signed a lease for an apart­ment in Mara­bel­la. 

He claimed that he could not re­spond di­rect­ly to the claims over the prop­er­ty his client claimed to be liv­ing at un­til the TTPS files a writ­ten ap­pli­ca­tion and pro­vides ev­i­dence. 

Williams al­so claimed that his client was con­cerned with com­ments made by Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds about the case. 

Ad­dress­ing me­dia per­son­nel af­ter at­tend­ing a re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty con­fer­ence at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel in Port-of-Spain last week, Hinds took is­sue with for­eign na­tion­als ac­cused of se­ri­ous crimes be­ing grant­ed rea­son­able bail. 

Re­fer­ring di­rect­ly to Wu’s case, Hinds al­so ques­tioned whether he (Wu) fled the coun­try af­ter ac­cess­ing bail, as was done by three fel­low Chi­nese na­tion­als, who were sep­a­rate­ly charged with ke­t­a­mine man­u­fac­tur­ing.  

“The metham­phet­a­mine lab­o­ra­to­ry op­er­a­tor, one non-na­tion­al, was ar­rest­ed and much to my sur­prise and much to the de­mor­al­i­sa­tion of the po­lice of­fi­cers in­volved, as they re­port­ed it to me, the man, who was giv­en very, very eas­i­ly ac­ces­si­ble bail and God know if he may have left the coun­try as well,” Hinds said. 

At the start of the case, Williams said, “I rep­re­sent Hong Fei Wu, who is clear­ly in Trinidad, not abroad as Mr Fitzger­ald Hinds said, un­for­tu­nate­ly.”

Williams said his client “is not run­ning any­where”, as he ex­pressed hope that Hinds’ com­ments would not af­fect the out­come of the ap­pli­ca­tions. 

Mag­is­trate De­onar­i­nesingh gave the par­ties un­til Fri­day to file their sub­mis­sions and ev­i­dence in re­la­tion to the in­di­vid­ual ap­pli­ca­tions. 
She al­so or­dered Wu to at­tend his court hear­ings from the build­ing hous­ing the San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trates’ Court, as he was found to be in a mov­ing ve­hi­cle at the start of yes­ter­day’s hear­ing and had to go to the Princes Town Po­lice Sta­tion be­fore it (the hear­ing) was al­lowed to con­tin­ue. 

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, Wu, who has been re­sid­ing in Trinidad for over a decade, was ar­rest­ed on Au­gust 10 af­ter Spe­cial Branch po­lice of­fi­cers ex­e­cut­ed a search war­rant at an apart­ment in the Res­i­dences at South Park in Tarou­ba. 

The of­fi­cers al­leged­ly found 540 grammes of the il­le­gal drug in 23 Zi­plock bags in the apart­ment and in Wu’s car. 
They al­so found chem­i­cals and equip­ment sus­pect­ed to be used to man­u­fac­ture the il­le­gal syn­thet­ic drug that is pop­u­lar in the Unit­ed States but rel­a­tive­ly un­known in T&T com­pared to co­caine and MD­MA. 
A quan­ti­ty of cash and elec­tron­ics in­clud­ing cell phones, tablets, and drones were al­so seized by po­lice. 

Wu was not called up­on to plead to the drug traf­fick­ing charge as it (the charge) would be pros­e­cut­ed in­dictably (be­fore a judge and ju­ry or a judge alone).

Wu is al­so be­ing rep­re­sent­ed by Toni Roberts.