CONFESSED drug user Kenneth Dorway was yesterday fined $10,000 with the alternative of 20 days imprisonment and ordered to do two weeks community service within the precincts of New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court.
That was the penalty imposed on him by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo in the same Court, after he told her that, following his hospitalisation at a private institution, the doctors there told him to “beat a spiff” in the evening in order to get rest.
Dorway had earlier pleaded guilty to possession of a narcotic.
Police Inspector Satrohan Dayaram, prosecuting, said, last April 17, the convict was walking along Sheet Anchor Public Road, East Canje, also in Berbice, when cops on patrol saw him acting suspiciously.
The Prosecutor said a search of his person yielded a brown paper parcel containing leaves, seeds and stems of the prohibited cannabis sativa (marijuana) plant, weighing one gramme.