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Surinamese national nabbed with ganja jailed for three years

Jul 23, 2015 News

A Surinamese national who was nabbed last Saturday with a quantity of marijuana, has been jailed for the crime.
Surinamese national, Keon Stephen Allicock, 22, of Timmers Dam, Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, and of Santo Derp-veg- Paramaribo, Suriname, who told the court that he is a musician, has been jailed for three years. The man appeared on Tuesday before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court, on the charge of being in possession for the purpose for trafficking.
He pleaded guilty to the charge which states that on Saturday July 18 at the Number 79 Foreshore, Corentyne, he had in his possession 8.217 kilograms of cannabis in his possession.
According to information, the police went to the area around 07:30 hrs and saw the individual acting in a suspicious manner. He was challenged and taken into custody where the police found a parcel containing what was suspected to be leaves, seeds and stems of the marijuana plant.
The suspect and the drugs were taken into custody where the contents were tested, checked and found to be eight kilograms of marijuana.

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