Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday sentenced a teenager who admitted that he had 30 kilos of ganja for trafficking to three years imprisonment and fined him $30,000 when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court. Leon Anthony Davison, 18, of 58 La Retraite, West Bank Demerara admitted to a charge of trafficking in narcotics and was handed the sentence by the magistrate.
Police in a press release had stated that ranks conducted a search on Monday at Vriesland, WBD and found the marijuana packed in a tarpaulin and stashed in a clump of bushes.
Davison was held and when he appeared in court yesterday he admitted the offence.
