Food vendor Christopher Cummings was yesterday found guilty of trafficking 106 grammes of cannabis, for which he was sentenced to three years in jail.
Cummings, of Lot 59 Tucville Housing Scheme, had been charged in January of last year and had maintained his innocence throughout his trial.
However, Georgetown magistrate Dylon Bess yesterday informed Cummings that he had been found guilty of the charge based on sufficient evidence provided to the court to support the prosecutor’s case.
He was then sentenced to three years behind bars.
The charge against the man stated that on January 11th, 2019 at Merriman Mall, Georgetown, he had 109 grammes of cannabis in his possession for trafficking. He had denied the charge and his attorney, Bernard DaSilva, was able to secure $100,000 bail for him.
At trial, he led his defence and told the court that the police had searched his shop at the mall and had found the illicit substance in a bucket which belonged to him. However, he had insisted that the contents were not his.
Cummings had told the court that the police told him to stay by the door of his shop while they searched. Later, he said, they told him to secure his stall because he was being arrested and would be taken to Eve Leary. The food vendor added that one of the officers had a black bag in his hand but he could not see the contents of the bag. He said they told him that the bag was found in a bucket which he used to throw garbage into. The same bag was weighed and shown to him while in custody at Eve Leary.
