Eon Fraser, a convicted prisoner who was serving a four-year sentence for narcotics possession, will be spending an additional four years in jail after he was found with a quantity of marijuana when he returned to the jail from performing duties outside.
Eon Fraser, 26, accepted that on July 24, at Georgetown, he had 32 grammes of cannabis in his possession for the purpose of trafficking.
“When I come out to work on the road, I see it and I pick it up,” Fraser said, when given a chance to speak.
Prosecutor Deniro Jones, who presented the police’s facts, said that Fraser had been performing duties out on the road. The court then heard that after being taken back to prison, prison officers conducted a search on Fraser’s person where they found the illegal substance concealed in his crotch.
Jones informed the court that the defendant was serving a four-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to a similar charge.
After hearing the case, Magistrate Ann McLennan, before whom the matter was called at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, fined Fraser $38,400 and sentenced him to four years in prison.
The magistrate further informed him that his sentence will run consecutive to one that he is already serving.
