Romario Stoll yesterday appeared before Magistrate Tamieka Clarke at the Suddie Magistrate’s Court where he was sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment, along with a fine of $30,000 for possession of the cannabis known as `Creepy’ for the purpose of trafficking, a release from CANU said.
The man was held in February this year with the foreign marijuana.
Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers conducted an operation at Walton Hall, Essequibo Coast where they intercepted a motor vehicle driven by Stoll.
A subsequent search of the motor vehicle revealed forty brick-like parcels wrapped with brown scotch tape containing a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be cannabis.
A release from CANU had said that a subsequent search was conducted at Lot 229 Charity Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast, which led to the discovery of an additional 20 brick-like parcels containing a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be cannabis.
Stoll of Lot 229 Charity Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast, was arrested and escorted to CANU’s Headquarters along with the cannabis. The narcotic found in the motor vehicle was tested and determined to be “Creepy”. It was weighed and amounted to 23.4 kilograms with a street value of $8.4m.
