A Hungarian and a Briton were yesterday remanded in custody after pleading not guilty to being in possession of mephedrone and cannabis.
David Rogers, 39, of Msida, denied being in possession of 180 grams of mephedrone and of committing the crime within 100 metres of a school in Msida on Thursday.
Once he learned that he would be spending Christmas Day in jail, he asked Magistrate Audrey Demicoli for permission to speak and pleaded desperately not to be locked up because he would lose his job at the HSBC call centre.
She told him that her decision was final.
In the other arraignment, Mihaly Matyas Gergo, 25, of Swieqi, denied trafficking cannabis after the police allegedly found not only the drug in his flat but also a weighing scale at his apartment on Thursday.
Police Inspectors Pierre Grech, Malcolm Bondin, Herman Mula and Saviour Baldacchino prosecuted.