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Sep 13, 2016 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News
Sheldon Simon, the man who was nabbed on Wednesday in a minibus on the Corentyne, was jailed earlier this year in his absence on a ganja charge.
Sheldon Simon, 45, who had given his address as Sheet Anchor, East Canje Berbice, and Lot 3 Ferry Street, New Amsterdam, was Wednesday arrested for the second time within a year in a minibus with a quantity of narcotics.
The drugs were found in his possession at a roadblock on the Corentyne mounted by the police in the vicinity of the Number 51 Police station.
The police had stopped minibus BVV 2700 which was heading further up the Corentyne, searched the vehicle, and found a black haversack which contained a plastic bag under a seat containing three wrapped parcels.
Simon was reportedly the lone passenger in the bus; the parcels when opened in his presence, contained a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be cannabis. He was told of the offence, cautioned, arrested and taken to the No 51 Police Station along with the suspected cannabis which was tested and weighed in the accused presence and amounted to 1,680 grams (3.7lbs) of cannabis sativa.
Simon, who is a known drug dealer, was nabbed with large quantity of compress marijuana in September 2015.
A female police officer was on her way to work when she boarded a No 63 minibus which was heading further up the Corentyne.
The man was observed in the bus with the black haversack on his lap. The police officer subsequently ordered the bus to drive into the Springlands Police Station compound.
Simon was arrested and he and the bag were taken into custody. Upon inspection it was observed that the haversack contained six black scotch tape plastic bags containing 5.47kg of compressed marijuana.
He was subsequently granted bail.
He was tried in absentia and sentenced to four years in jail.
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