Louisa Marja Jeukens, 36, who lives in Margarita, had a warrant issued for her arrest in Trinidad after skipping bail on charges of trafficking in heroin.
Members of the Organised Crime and Narcotics Bureau said yesterday they were fed up with some of the decisions being made by certain judicial officers.They made the comment shortly after a warrant was issued for the arrest of a Dutch national, who skipped bail on charges of trafficking in heroin.
Louisa Marja Jeukens, 36, who lives in Margarita, was allegedly held with approximately $4 million worth of pure heroin while attempting to board flight BW900 to London on December 16, 2004.
OCNB officers said they were on enquiries at Piarco International Airport that day when they searched Jeukens? luggage and found the drugs.
She was subsequently charged with possession of heroin for the purpose of trafficking by an Arima magistrate.
However, on July 27, 2005, she applied for bail in the high court before Justice Prakash Moosai, who fixed bail in the sum of $1.2 million.
Moosai?s granting of bail also included conditions that she report to the Gasparillo Police Station between 1 pm to 6 pm every Monday.
Police said that on the August 3, 2005, Jeukens went before Justice Herbert Volney in the high court, seeking a bail reduction.
The police said Volney reduced the bail to $500,000.
When the matter came up yesterday in the Port-of-Spain Magistrates Court before magistrate Halcyon Yorke-Young, Jeukens was nowhere to be found.
Her name was called several times in the lobby of the court but there was no response. A warrant was subsequently issued for her arrest. Senior officers attached to the unit said some of the rulings made by certain magistrates and judges are now worrying them, adding their hard work in narcotics trafficking was all in vain.
They said several other international drug traffickers, who had been denied bail but were subsequently granted bail by other judicial officers, had also jumped bail.
They are now calling on the Chief Justice to address the matter of bail application to foreigners on drug trafficking matters.
