DANNY Sankar, of Lot 588 Fort Ordinance Housing Scheme, East Canje, was sentenced to three years imprisonment last Friday, on being found guilty of being in possession of a narcotic for the purpose of trafficking. In addition to the custodial penalty, the 22-year-old prisoner was fined $34,200 by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at New Amsterdam Court, also in Berbice.
Sankar was convicted after the court overruled no-case submissions by Defence Counsel Mursaline Bacchus  and ordered the defendant to lead a defence.
Earlier, Police Corporal Orin Joseph, prosecuting, called Cadet  Officer Jermaine Dufu, who testified that, on entering the defendant’s yard on January 12 last, at about 12:30 hrs, in company with other ranks, he saw Sankar, though a window, acting suspiciously.
Dufu said Sankar placed a transparent bag in a black cap which was hanging on the western wall and when the witness entered the house and retrieved the bag, it contained a number of small ziplock parcels with seeds, leaves and stems of the cannabis sativa (marijuana) plant. The narcotic in 20 packets weighed 28 and a half grammes. (Jeune Vankeric)