A 36-year-old man was this morning remanded in custody after pleading not guilty to trafficking ecstasy.

Joseph Buttigieg, of Cospicua, also pleaded not guilty to being in possession of the drug at amounts that denoted it was not for his personal use and to being in possession of cocaine.

Sources said that during investigations, the police and found Mr Buttigieg carrying 100 ecstasy pills.

They searched his mother’s house in Marsa where they found 16,000 ecstasy pills in a safe, which they had to open with a chaser.

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