A police constable, who was caught by his superiors with a box of fried chicken and ganja at the May Pen Police Station lock-up, where he went to visit a prisoner, had his bail extended when he appeared in the May Pen Resident Magistrate's Court on Thursday.

Charged with possession of ganja is Constable Ryan Powell of May Pen, Clarendon.

It is alleged that, in early February, the lawman took a box containing chicken for a male prisoner.

During a search of the contents, small parcels of vegetable matter resembling ganja were found. He was taken into custody and a file later submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions who ruled that the policeman be charged.

During Powell's appearance, his attorney, Ernest Smith, told Resident Magistrate Nicole Simmonds that the manner in which his client found himself in his current situation was very strange.

Mr. Smith claimed it was the girlfriend who had given his client a box of fast food and that the officer was, out of the goodness of his heart, trying to deliver the food when he was held.