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Grandmother, 65, jailed for taking drugs to son in jail

Sep 24, 2016 News

A 65-year-old woman will spend the next year in jail after she was caught in the act of taking drugs into the New Amsterdam Prison.
The woman, Willie Drugen, called “Monica” of Liverpool Village, Corentyne, Berbice, is accused of committing the act on Wednesday June 10.
She appeared before Magistrate Alex Moore in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on a charge of introducing narcotics to the New Amsterdam Prison and was found guilty.
According to Police Prosecutor Corporal Winston Poliah, around 09:00 hrs on the day in question, the woman went to the New Amsterdam Prison at Penitentiary Walk, New Amsterdam to visit her son Gavin Durant, who is incarcerated there, with the intention of taking something for him.
During the process she was searched and among some clothes she was carrying, leaves, seeds and stems of what was suspected to be cannabis was found.
The substance was subsequently weighed and tested and found to be 2 ½ grams of marijuana.
She had pleaded not guilty and was subsequently jailed. Apart from being sentenced to one-year in jail. She was also fined $30,000 or spend an additional six months in jail.

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