A man who told the court that he uses cannabis to smoke was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined $30,000 after appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
Rondell Simmons admitted that on January 28 at Georgetown he had in his possession 12 ½ grammes of cannabis.
The man who appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court told the acting chief magistrate, “ah does smoke it meh worship, is nah like ah de going fuh sell it nor nothing.”
In giving the facts of the case, Police Corporal Venetta Pindar, prosecuting, told the court that on the day in question a police patrol noticed the man acting in a suspicious manner on Duncan Street, Georgetown.
After approaching him, Pindar said that the police nabbed the defendant with the cannabis in his left pants pocket.
He was later arrested and charged with the offence to which he admitted.
Simmons begged for mercy before the magistrate handed down the three-year prison sentence and fined him $30,000.
