TWENTY-one-year-old Sydney Davis, a farmer of Waicahdai Village in Lethem, Region Eight, was on Monday sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of $30,000 on a narcotics charge to which the unrepresented man pleaded guilty.

It is alleged that on September 18, at the Karasabai Police Station in Lethem, Davis had in his possession 39.5 grammes of cannabis-sativa (marijuana).

He was also charged with threatening language, assaulting a police officer, and resisting arrest, but Davis pleaded not guilty to threatening a police officer on August 15 at Karasabai Police Station.

The prosecution’s facts are that on the day in question, at about 09:00 hrs, the defendant went to the Karasabai Police Station to visit a friend who had been locked up. Being denied a visit, Davis allegedly told the police officer that he would shoot him with an arrow and bow, before running out of the station compound.

Davis also pleaded not guilty to assaulting a peace officer on September 18 at Waicahdai Village, but he pleaded guilty to resisting arrest from a police officer on September 18 at Waicahdai Village.

It is alleged that on the day in question, ranks made contact with the defendant and told him of the offence he had committed. As they were about to arrest him, he resisted arrest from a peace officer, but was nevertheless taken to the police station.

Whilst there, a search was conducted on Davis, and in his right side pants pocket, ranks found a transparent bag containing leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be the prohibited substance.

Davis was fined $10,000 for resisting arrest, but was remanded for threatening language and for assaulting a peace officer. The matters have been transferred before the Lethem Magistrate for a December 1 calling.