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‘Sickly’ man to do two months community service on drugs charge

Mar 17, 2010 News

Anthony Giddings called ‘Big Head’ of no fixed place of abode was on Monday fined $10,000 and ordered to do two months community service three hours each day at the Central Police Station in New Amsterdam.
Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo imposed the sentences when the man appeared before her at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court and pleaded guilty to the charge of possession of marijuana.
The facts of the case, which were presented by Prosecutor inspector Satrohan Dayaram , state that on Friday March 12 at Strand, New Amsterdam, a police patrol saw the defendant acting in a suspicious manner. He was stopped and searched and two grams of marijuana were found concealed on his person. He was arrested, told of the offence and charged.
In court he told the magistrate she was sorry and begged for a chance.
He said that he is a sickly man and suffers with asthma and was told by a doctor to use the drugs, because it has good healing power and will help him.
The magistrate then imposed the penalty with an alternative of two months’ imprisonment.
And in another matter, Tony Sookram, 33, of Islington, East Bank Berbice, was on Monday fined $10,000 or an alternative of 20 days’ imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to the charge of possession of narcotics. The man pleaded guilty when he appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court, before magistrate Adela Nagamootoo.
Sookram was found with two grams of cannabis in his possession at the Central police station on Wednesday, after he was picked up on a false pretence allegation.
The man was picked up by the police after it was reported that he obtained the sum of $5000 from a scrap iron dealer. The police was informed and he was subsequently arrested and taken to the station.
At the station, the police conducted a search on him and found the leaves, seeds and stem of the plant concealed in his right side pocket.
The magistrate also ordered that Sookram do two months of community service within the precincts of the Magistrate’s court.
In court he told the Magistrate that he was advised to use the drugs for medicinal purposes.

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