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Four years for man who threw ganja over prison fence

May 14, 2017 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

Raymond Mark, the man who threw two bulky potato bags containing marijuana over the Camp Street Prison walls, was on Friday sentenced to four years’ imprisonment by City Magistrate Leron Daly after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Mark pleaded guilty to the charge which stated that he on May 8, last, at the Camp Street Prison, had in his possession 793 grams of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.
Police Prosecutor Bharat Mangru told the court that on the day in question, police officers were performing duties outside the Georgetown Prison when they observed the accused throwing two potato bags over the wall of the Camp Street Georgetown Prison.
The court heard that the bags were recovered and the suspected narcotics mentioned in the charge were found.
The suspected cannabis which was then weighed, in the presence of the accused amounted to 793 grams.
The defendant was arrested and he admitted to the police that he knew what was in the bags. Mark was also fined $30,000 by the Magistrate.

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