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Ganja prisoner jailed for 3 years

Feb 06, 2010 News

A convicted prisoner at the Georgetown Prisons, who was scheduled to be released this month, would now have to spend an additional three years in prison after he tried to smuggle drugs into the prison.
Patrick Coates pleaded guilty to having in his possession 32 grams of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking, on January 28. He made a court appearance before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. According to the prosecution, on the day in question, Coates who is a convicted prisoner had returned from working at the cemetery.
The prosecutor further told the court that Coates was subjected to a search after he arrived at the prison.
It was during the search that a prison officer found the drugs in his rectum. He was cautioned and he later confessed.
When asked if he had anything to say Coates told the magistrate that “he wanted a light sentence”.
The magistrate in turn told Coates that the only way he would get a “light sentence” was if he told her where he got the drugs from.
Coates told the court that a man had paid the prisoner officer who was looking at them to pass the drugs in the prison.
He further told the magistrate that the prison officer gave him the drugs to pass in. However, it was the same prison officer who ordered that he be searched.  The magistrate fined Coates $30,000 in addition to three years’ imprisonment.

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