Man gets three years for ganja possession

Mar 19, 2011 News

Raymond Mohamed, 30, Charles Barrow, Leroy Adams and Shawn Persaud all appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday to answer to the charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.
Mohamed pleaded guilty while the other three declared their innocence of the offence instituted against them.
They were all unrepresented.
Magistrate Beharry handed down a prison term of three years together with $30,000 fined on Mohamed. The other three accused were remanded until March 22, when the matter will be called again.
The Magistrate then instructed the prosecutor to send the other files to the Director of Public Prosecution (DDP) for advice.
According to police Sergeant, Lionel Harvey, on March 17, last, at Willington Street, Georgetown, law enforcement ranks unearthed 129 grams of marijuana stashed in motor car number PLL 1823 the four accused were in at the time of the bust.
Harvey went further to say that on the day in question, police on mobile patrol observed the four accused that were in the said vehicle acting in a suspicious manner.
The vehicle at the time of the observation was proceeding west along Sandy Babb Street, Kitty.
The car was stooped and a search was conducted. A black plastic bag concealed under the front passenger seat was found containing leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be that of the illicit substance marijuana. The prosecutor added that further checks that were conducted on the four occupants of the vehicle came up empty-handed.
Mohamed was seated in the front passenger seat, while Charles was the driver. The other two accused were seated at the back seat of the car.
Subsequently, Mohamed told officers that the substance was his own. Nevertheless, ranks arrested all four of the men and escorted them to the Kitty Police Station. At the station, the substance was weighed and tested in their presence which then amounted to 129 grams of marijuana.
As a result they were caution, charged and placed into custody.
Magistrate Beharry then asked Mohamed if he indeed admitted ownership of the cannabis, with a bold voice, the accused exclaimed, “I had it; it was my own they (other three accused) did not know nothing about de weed.”
Mohamed said that he was at home on the day of the incident when he received a telephone call from a friend informing him that he will have to travel to Georgetown to pick up some “weed”.
Upon reaching the city, he visited an apartment where his friend, Leroy Adams lives.
At the apartment, he then saw the three accused. After consuming several bottles of Guinness, he along with the other three men boarded a taxi that driven by Charles Barrow and headed to “down town”.
“It was then that the police stopped the car and found the weed,” affirmed Mohamed.
He also told the court that he resides at Lot 2 Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo. The court was made to understand that Mohamed, who is a father of two minors, is employed as a minibus conductor.
Leroy, who is a miner, gave his address as Lot 39 William Street, Kitty, Georgetown. Next to provide his address to the court was Charles Barrow. He lives at Tuschen East Bank Essequibo while Persaud inhabits at lot 39 Bell Air Village, Georgetown. The prosecution explained that all of the accused had no matter that ever engaged the attention of the court.

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