By Paul A. Reid, Staff ReporterWESTERN BUREAU:
SENIOR SUPT. Carl Williams, head of the Police Narcotics Division, has been summoned to the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court this morning to explain why a man who was on $10 million bail, granted by the court, was taken back into custody this week.
Attorney-at-law Roy Fairclough, a lawyer for Glenford Williams, the accused man, made a habeas corpus application to Resident Magistrate Ms. Valerie Stephens in court yesterday.
Mr. Fairclough told the court that on Monday his client went to the Area One Police Narcotics Office to fulfil his reporting obligation and he was taken back into custody.
Mr. Fairclough said he was told by Det. Supt. Kerr at the Freeport police station that the Montego Bay police had been given instructions from their superiors that Glenford Williams should be taken back into custody "since it was feared he would not surrender into custody."
The lawyer quoted from the Bail Act, stating that persons taken back into custody should be brought to the next sitting of the RM Court. Williams, Mr. Fairclough said, was not brought and as far as they knew, no instructions had been given for him to be taken to court and the 24-hour period during which he should have been put back before the court, had passed.
Williams was taken to court yesterday afternoon and was remanded in custody as the court was told that Senior Supt. Williams was in a meeting with the Commissioner of Police and was unable to make it to Montego Bay then, but would attend today.
The accused man was arrested on April 17 after the police went to his home in Latium district and searched it. They said they discovered a trap door that led to a basement. A search of the basement, the police said, revealed 100 lb. of white powdery substance resembling cocaine and about 85 lb. of what appeared to be hash oil. Williams was charged arising from the discoveries.
