A New Amsterdam man was on Monday sentenced to three years’ imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to the charge of cultivating a prohibited substance in the Upper Berbice River area.
Trelon Frank, 21, of Number 41 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, appeared before Magistrate Wanda Fortune at the Linden Magistrate’s Court via Zoom.
After the charge was read to him, Frank entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to three years in prison.
Frank was arrested in a cannabis field located in the De Veldt Village, Upper Berbice River, last Thursday during a narcotics eradication by police.
In a statement to the press police had said that in a thirteen-hour exercise the team found and destroyed approximately three acres of cultivated cannabis with more than 13,000 plants measuring between six inches and two feet in height.
Additionally, a nursery with about 3000 seedlings, 15 lbs of dried cannabis and five camps were discovered and destroyed by fire.
Frank was the lone person arrested in one of the fields.
