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Driver, porter jailed 4 years, fined for trafficking narcotics
Twenty-eight-year-old Lawrence Harper, a porter, of 592 Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, and Stanley Mann, 32, a driver, of 7 Industry, East Coast Demerara, were yesterday jailed and fined for the possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.
Stanley Mann
Lawrence Harper
Harper and Mann were jointly charged with two counts of the offence.
They appeared before Magistrate Wanda Fortune in the Linden Magistrate’s Court.
The unrepresented men pleaded guilty to both charges after they were read to them.
They were then sentenced to four years’ imprisonment on each charge and fined $240,300. The sentences are to run concurrently.
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