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Drug-running cop jailed for 7 years

Jan 26, 2017 News

A policeman, who was a part of the police anti-narcotics branch and was subsequently interdicted on an alleged narcotics matter, has been jailed on another narcotics matter in Berbice.
Ian Michael Johnson, 24, of Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, was yesterday sentenced to a total of seven years in jail when he appeared before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court on two charges of possession of Narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.
According to Prosecutor Inspector Bernard Brown, the accused on Sunday June 5, 2016, was on his way to neighbouring Suriname, via the No78 ‘back track’ crossing. Johnson, who was carrying a black bulky suitcase, was about to board a boat. He was seen acting in a suspicious manner and was subjected to a search by the police and GRA enforcement officers.
It was observed that the suitcase had a false bottom. Upon checking the false bottom the investigators unearthed seven parcels of compressed marijuana and a quantity of Amphetamines.
Johnson was arrested and taken into custody where the drugs were tested and weighed and found to be 2,525 grams of marijuana and 15 grams of Amphetamine.
The man was subsequently charged and was
sentenced to four years in jail on the marijuana charge and three years on the Amphetamines charge. The sentences will run concurrently.

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