A MAN is to stand trial after he pleaded not guilty to a crack cocaine trafficking charge.

Curtis Carvalho, 24, denies possession of the class A drug in Newport on June 9.

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The defendant also pleaded not guilty to assaulting a police officer on the same date.

Carvalho, of Anderson Place, Adamsdown, Cardiff, is due to stand trial on December 15.

He was granted conditional bail by Judge Niclas Parry.