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Jul 03, 2014 News
Exactly two weeks after being charged for smuggling cigarettes and marijuana into the Georgetown Prisons, a 22-year-old rape accused was yesterday jailed on a drug trafficking and another charge.
It was on May 7, last, that a prison warder busted Ronald Armstrong, a remanded prisoner, with a quantity of marijuana and cigarettes in his backpack.
While being held in custody for carnal knowledge, Armstrong who hails from Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo was taken before Magistrate Judy Latchman on June 18, last at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
The first charge against him alleged that on May 7, last, at the Georgetown Prisons he had 181 grams of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking.
Armstrong was accused, too, of conveying 35 packets of cigarettes into the prison. He had pleaded not guilty to both charges.
Inspector Joel Ricknauth, the prosecutor, explained that on May 7, last, Armstrong was returning from a proceeding at the Leonora Magistrates’ Court to the Camp Street prison facility.
He said that upon arrival, a prison officer searched his bag and found the packets of cigarettes and two large taped parcels.
He said that a further search on the parcels unearthed a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be marijuana.
The officer made a report to the police and Armstrong was subsequently charged for the offence.
On June 18, he was brought before the courts to be formally charged and the trial subsequently commenced on June 27.
At the conclusion yesterday, Armstrong was told that coupled with a 50-month prison sentence he will also have to pay a $97,016 fine on the drug trafficking charge.
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