Timehri prisoners get additional sentences

Nov 27, 2010 News

…they were caught with ganja and cell phone

Appearing before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Providence Magistrate Court on Wednesday, last, was Claude Melville who was charged with possession of narcotics.
It is alleged that on October 27, last, Melville, who is a prisoner of the Timehri Prison, East Bank Demerara (EBD), was found with three grammes of cannabis in his possession at the prison.
Melville pleaded guilty.
According to Prosecutor Corporal Gordon Mansfield, Melville and five other prisoners were sent to the Guyana Defence Force compound (Camp Stephenson) located at Timehri, East Bank Demerara, to do prison work.
Upon their return to the prison, a search was conducted on all six prisoners and traces of seeds and leaves, which were suspected to belong to cannabis, were found on Melville.
Magistrate Lovell was given the option of paying a fine of $30,000 or serve two months’ imprisonment.
Also appearing before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell was Dennis Simon, another prisoner of the Timehri Prison.
Simon was called to answer to the charge of taking a prohibited article into prison. It is alleged that on October 27, 2010, Dennis took one black Motorola cellular phone into Timehri Prison without lawful authority.
He pleaded guilty but sought to offer an explanation.
He told Magistrate Lovell that he is currently serving a four-year sentence at Timehri Prison and that he did not take the cellular phone into the compound. He further said that the phone was “already in prison” and that other prisoners were utilising the communication tool at various times.
The prisoner told the court that he and a particular officer at the prison often had dis-agreements and that when the police found the cellular phone they began “running through the numbers”.
He explained to the Magistrate that when the officer recognized a number to be that of Dennis Simon’s girlfriend, the officer said “We got him now”.
Prosecutor Gordon Mansfield told the court that a search was carried out in the prisoners’ dormitory and the cellular phone was not found there.
However, when searches were carried out on each prisoner, the cellular phone was discovered on Dennis Simon’s person’.
Magistrate Lovell sentenced Dennis to three months’ imprisonment to run concurrently with his four-year sentence.

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