MICHELLE Flitters, of Lot 227 South Road, Lacytown, Georgetown, who was arrested at Lethem, Rupununi with cocaine concealed under a wig, got a four years jail sentence yesterday.

She pleaded guilty to trafficking in the narcotic and was also fined $909,000 by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

Particulars of the offence said, on November 24, at Tabatinga, Central Rupununi, she had 1,010 grammes of the drug for the purpose.

Police Sergeant Shellon Daniels, prosecuting, said cops at Lethem conducted a search on minibus BLL 5279, in which the prisoner was a passenger.

The Prosecutor said the bus was stopped around 11:00 h at Lethem Multi-Purpose Centre and Flitters had 10 packets of the prohibited substance in her possession under the false hair.

Flitters was one of two convicts who suffered both custodial and monetary penalties for having trafficked narcotics.

In the same Court, Robert Chankum (no address given) was sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined $30,000.

He admitted that, on November 24, too, he had six grammes of cocaine in Albouystown, another Georgetown ward.

Policemen from the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) were on mobile patrol when they arrested Chankum in James Street, Albouystown.