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Man takes rap for cocaine found in fire extinguisher
A quartet was yesterday brought before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Providence Magistrates’ Court after ranks of Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) discovered a quantity of cocaine and marijuana in a fire extinguisher.
Convicted Dinesh Dias
One of the men, Dinesh Dias, 28, was sentenced to jail for 48 months’ and ordered to pay a fine of $5.1M after he pleaded guilty to a cocaine trafficking charge. By doing so, the charges against the other men were dismissed.
Dias, called ‘Anil’, was jointly charged with Anthony Collins called ‘Black Boy’, 31; Seenarine Mathura called ‘Desi’, 43; and Mohamed Insha, 48.
The charge alleged that on April 23, 2019 at Lot 26 Timehri, East Bank Demerara, Dias had in his possession 1.8 kilograms of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. Also, it was alleged that on the same date and at the same location he had in his possession 1.89 grams of cannabis.
After the charge was read to him, Dias told the court that his early guilty plea was as a result of the other three men not knowing anything about the narcotics. He admitted that the illegal substance belonged to him.
CANU prosecutor, Konyo Sandiford, told the court that on the day in question the four men were arrested during a raid on Dias’s home.
According to CANU, the cocaine was concealed in a fire extinguisher believed to be destined for placement on an aircraft for an international destination through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA).
When prosecutor Sandiford finished relating the facts of the charges, Magistrate Scarce took into consideration the early guilty plea made by Dias and also the way in which the narcotic was concealed, in calculating an appropriate sentence.
Dias was sentenced to 48 months’ in jail and fined $5.1M fine for trafficking cocaine. In relation to the charge for possession of marijuana, he was fined $15,000 or in default one week in prison.
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