Charged in January with attempting to smuggle a quantity of cannabis into the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court lockups, a mother of three was yesterday sentenced to a year behind bars for the crime.
It is alleged that Sarah Chance, on January 21st at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, unlawfully introduced 23 grammes of cannabis into the court lockups.
It was the prosecutor’s case that the defendant and the person she attempted to give the substance to, had known each other for about three months.
When the defendant visited the court lockups, the police indicated that the boots in which the drug was concealed, were to be searched. It was at this time that the defendant began acting suspiciously. During the search, the illicit substance was found concealed within the soles of the shoes.
During her first court appearance, Chance said, “I tried to help out somebody but I didn’t know it was weed in the boots.”
The Kaneville resident heard yesterday at the close of her trial before Magistrate Rhondell Weaver that she was found guilty of the crime. She was then sentenced to one year behind bars for the offence.
