Ganja farmer gets three years for trafficking

Aug 28, 2015 News

When he told the court he was a farmer, almost everyone seated in the courtroom presumed that he was involved in planting fruits and vegetables. But surprisingly, 25-year-old Clifford Nathaniel told the court that he grows marijuana because he wants to “get li’l money.”
This farmer will now have to find a way to make that money from behind the walls of the Camp Street prison, after he was jailed for three years yesterday after pleading guilty to a narcotics charge.

Jailed: Clifford Nathaniel

Nathaniel admitted to City Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts that on August 23, at Monkey Mountain, Rupununi, he had 18 grammes of cannabis in his possession for the purpose of trafficking.
In addition to the jail term, he was ordered to pay a fine $30,000.
When asked by the Magistrate if he had anything to say before sentencing, Nathaniel told the court, “This drug is my own. I does plant it. Is not nuff though, this is the fuss time I trying this.”
Police Prosecutor, Corporal Deniro Jones, told the court that on the day in question, around 15:25hrs, the police visited a community in the Monkey Mountain area, in relation to a report of disorderly behaviour being committed by Nathaniel.
Jones related that the man was taken into police custody and a search was carried out on his person. A quantity of leaves, seeds and stems of cannabis sativa (marijuana) were found in his left side pants pocket in a white bag.