Two East Coast Demerara residents, who were busted last Saturday morning with a quantity of cocaine and cannabis, were yesterday sentenced to four years in jail and fined $240,300 after they pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.
Lawrence Harper, 28, a porter of Lot 592 Cummings Lodge, ECD and Stanley Mann, 32, a driver of Lot 7 Industry, ECD, appeared before Magistrate Wanda Fortune at the Linden Magistrate’s Court where the charges was read to them.
They pleaded guilty and were sentenced to four years imprisonment on each charge. The sentences are to run concurrently.
Harper and Mann were taken into custody after the drugs were unearth-ed in a minibus during a stop and search exercise at Mabura, Upper Demerara River.
The police, in a press release issued had said ranks, acting on intelligence gathered, intercepted the minibus around 9 am Saturday at Mabura.
A search was conducted during which 89 grammes of cocaine and 6.818 kilogrammes of cannabis were found concealed.
At the time, Mann was the driver of the minibus.
