FORTY-YEAR-OLD Damien Mendonca, of Lot 77 Corriverton Housing Scheme, was sentenced to six years imprisonment, on Tuesday, after he pleaded guilty to drug trafficking. In front of Magistrate Krishendat Persaud, at Springlands Court in Corentyne, Berbice, Mendonca admitted that he trafficked two grammes of cocaine and one gramme of cannabis (marijuana).
He was given a three-year sentence on each of the two convictions but the terms will run concurrently.
Police Inspector Satrohan Dayaram, prosecuting, said, on June 17, the prisoner was seen acting in a suspicious manner while walking in the vicinity of Skeldon Post Office, also at Corentyne and, on seeing policemen, ran while discarding a grease proof paper parcel.
Mendonca was arrested and taken back to where the parcel was retrieved and it was found to contain the narcotics, the prosecutor said.