Mike's Clun on Regent Street West in Belize City is one of the oldest bars in the city - and it's also got one of the oldest owners, 84 year old Alvin Diamond. And today, he become one of the oldest persons to be charged with drug trafficking.
Diamond, along with two bartenders and a regular patron of the bar are all facing drug trafficking charges after the Gang Suppression Unit found cocaine at the bar yesterday.
According to the GSU, they conducted a search between 1:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Officers found 22 grams - less than an ounce - of crack cocaine inside a plastic bucket in a storage area for the club.
50 year-old Ernest Brown; 20 year-old Kanisha Ariola, both bartenders; and 84 year-old retiree and owner of the club, Alvin Diamond; and 50 year-old Douglas Patterson, were all charged jointly with drug trafficking.
They were arraigned before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer today. They pleaded not guilty to the charges and were granted bail of $6,000.
They are to return to court on August 8.
49 year old Caryl MEIGHAN who was a patron at the Club at the time was separately arrested and charged for insulting words.
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