A 37-year-old resident of the St. Michael parish in Barbados has secured $25,000 conditional bail following his formal not-guilty plea to a quartet of drug trafficking and possession offences tied to a 1.6-kilogramme cocaine seizure valued at $80,000. The defendant, identified as John Goddard Wood whose residential address is listed as 7E Rosemont, Deacons Road, made his first court appearance before Acting Magistrate Keitha Ellis at the District ‘B’ Magistrates’ Court during Monday’s routine criminal proceedings. The four counts brought against Wood stem from an alleged law enforcement operation carried out on November 6, and include unlawful possession of a controlled substance, drug trafficking, possession of narcotics with explicit intent to distribute to third parties, and a count of attempted cocaine exportation. Law enforcement officials confirmed that the illicit substance recovered during the targeted operation tested presumptively positive for cocaine, tipped the scales at 1.60 kilogrammes, and carries an estimated local street market value of $80,000. Magistrate Ellis approved Wood’s bail application on the requirement that he produce two independent qualified sureties to back the bail bond, and formally scheduled his next mandatory court hearing for March 15, 2027, to allow sufficient time for prosecutors to complete full case file disclosure and forensic testing of the seized narcotics.