FORTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Mark Anthony Jones called ‘Jonesie’, of Patrick Dam, Mount Sinai, was sentenced to three years imprisonment, on Wednesday, for trafficking 90 grammes of cannabis (marijuana). In addition, Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo, at New Amsterdam Court, also in Berbice ordered him to pay a fine of $118,000, three times the street value of the narcotic.
Police Corporal Roberto Figueira, prosecuting, led evidence, through Cadet Officer Dufu, that, last January 8, during a mobile patrol with a party of policemen, he observed the defendant acting in a suspicious manner along Patrick Dam.
However, when they were about to stop him, Jones dropped a bag , which was, subsequently retrieved and found to contain a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems of the prohibited plant.