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Mar 23, 2009 News
Magistrate Chandra Sohan did not buy Kamal Khan’s story about being a medicine man who used marijuana to practice his craft, so he sent Khan to jail for five years.
The Smythfield, Berbice resident had accepted ownership of five kilograms of cannabis, which were found in his Liverpool, Corentyne house.
Khan appeared at the Whim Magistrate’s Court on Friday along with co-accused Lincoln De Freitas and Andram Simon.
De Freitas and Simon pleaded not guilty to possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking and were remanded to prison.
Prosecutor Corporal Roberto Figueira told the court that on March 6, the police, acting on information that a wanted man was at a certain residence at Liverpool, visited the premises, which is owned by De Freitas.
They found the three defendants at the house and unearthed five kilograms of leaves, seeds and stems of marijuana beneath an old chair under the house.
Khan told the Magistrate that the drug was his and he had brought it from Canje Creek. He explained that he took it to De Freitas’s house and would have removed it the following day to Canje where it was to be used to make medicine, because he is a ‘medicine man’.
But the prosecutor asked that the maximum penalty be imposed on the defendant stating that no mercy should be shown to drug traffickers.
The prosecutor told the court that it was not the first time that the defendant was jailed for such an offence.
The magistrate imposed the maximum five-year penalty and ordered the defendant to pay a fine of $140,000, which is three times the value of the drugs, or face another 18 months in prison.
The other two accused were remanded until April 23rd.
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