A man who was arrested in Paceville in possession of 50 sachets of cocaine has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges.
Bahar ic-Caghaq resident Petar Bajic, 35, was arraigned before magistrate Monica Vella on Saturday, after police officers who stopped him in Paceville on Thursday found him to be carrying 70g of cocaine, which was divided unevenly into 50 sachets.
Some of the sachets are understood to have contained 0.5g of the illegal substance, while others held up to 5g.
Inspector Jonathan Pace told the court that the police, having been tipped off that Bajic was selling drugs in Paceville had stopped the suspect while he getting out of his car. Bajic had admitted to having drugs, both on his person and inside his car. When a search was carried out after Bajic’s arrest at around 9:30pm on Saturday, officers had also found weighing scales in his car.
Bajic is charged…
