Crown seeks restriction on car in cocaine case
Province alleges Mohammad Karam Abualhawa, 24, of Fredericton, used vehicle when allegedly trafficking in narcotics in capital last fall, could apply to have car forfeited to state
A judge ordered Wednesday that a car the Crown claims was used in the trafficking of cocaine can’t be sold or disposed of until the case against the defendant concludes.
Mohammad Karam Abualhawa, 24, of McInnis Court in Fredericton, is scheduled to stand trial in provincial court next January on Sept. 6 counts of possessing cocaine for the purpose of trafficking and possessing $300 alleged to be the proceeds of crime.
But the accused and his defence counsel, Fredericton lawyer Ron Morris, were in the Court of King’s Bench on Wednesday to answer to an application brought by the provincial Office of the Attorney General.