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Mom and daughter get three years each for ganja

Apr 17, 2013 News

A mother and her teenage daughter were yesterday each sentenced to three years in jail for trafficking in narcotics.
The matter was presided over by Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Court documents revealed that the daughter, Nadia, 18, and mother Bibi Abdul, 40, of 41 Dowding Street, Kitty, were arrested on February 22, 2012, after they tried to sell an undercover cop, Lance Corporal Eddoo, 4 grams of cannabis.
Further, on the aforementioned date, ranking officers conducted a search at Bibi Abdul’s home and found 210 grams of cannabis buried in the front of her yard.
The mother who was subsequently charged for possession of narcotics was given another sentence of 3 years imprisonment which will run concurrently.
Moreover, the women were each fined $10,000.

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