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Jul 02, 2011 News
Christopher Tuesday, a porkknocker of Third Avenue, Bartica, and a father of six, the youngest being 15, was yesterday sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and fined $ 120,000 with an alternative of a further three months’ imprisonment. for the possession of Cannabis Sativa for the purpose of Trafficing .
Police Prosecutor, Inspector Oswald Pitt, stated that around 23:30 hrs on June 28, last, police ranks were on mobile patrol along Second Avenue, Bartica, when they saw the accused riding a pedal cycle and acting in a suspicious manner,
They stopped him then conducted a search and found the illegal substance in his right hand .
Tuesday was described as a known character who is also before the Courts on a simple Larceny Charge,
He had only recently come out of prison after serving time for simple larceny.
And Odinga Mc Kenzie, 35, of 278 Q Guyhoc Park, Georgetown appeared in the Bartica Magistrate’s Court yesterday to answer to the charges of possession of Narcotics for the purpose of trafficing .
It was alleged that on Tuesday the defendant was a passenger heading to Itaballi, Mazaruni River when police ranks stopped the said boat and conducted a searched on the defendant.
They unearthed nine grams of cocaine and 358 grams of Cannabis Sativa, concealed in a black plastic and wrapped in brown scotch tape among four trays of eggs that the defendant had in his hands at the said time.
The defendant then entered a not guilty plea and will return to the Bartica Magistrate’s Court on August , 26.
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