Eon Martin, one of two men who were arrested in a Norton Street drug bust will now spend the next three years and six months behind bars after pleading guilty to a trafficking charge.
When he appeared yesterday before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, 45-year-old Martin of Pike Street, Kitty, Georgetown was charged with having in his possession 1.158 kilogrammes of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking on February 21 at Norton Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown.
The accused entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months imprisonment and fined the sum of $1,737,000.
CANU had issued a release stating that they had conducted an operation last Tuesday at a property on Norton Street, Wortmanville, where two persons were seen on the premises. During the search a quantity of a brick-like substance suspected to be cocaine was also found.
Martin and his co-accused, 50-year-old Andre Clarke who lives at the same address were taken to CANU headquarters with the suspected narcotics. The substance later tested positive for cocaine and weighed a total of 1.158 kilogrammes or (2.55 pounds) with a street value of $1.1 million.
The defendant’s accomplice, Clarke, was not charged with this recent offence but has a pending matter of a similar nature in the court for which he was charged and released on $150,000 bail in August of last year.
