–for trafficking ‘ganja’ in NA prison

MURDER accused, Kevin Hintzen, 25, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment after confessing to hiding 78 grammes of ‘ganja’ in his crotch.The ‘stash’ was unearthed during a routine search at the New Amsterdam prison.

Additionally, the convict was fined $30,000 with an alternative of sixty days’ imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to trafficking narcotics before New Amsterdam Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs Marcus.

The remand prisoner was unwilling to tell the court from where he had got the narcotic, but confessed that after he had received it he had hidden it in his pants crotch.

“Sometimes I does sell it, and sometimes I does give them (prisoners) for free,” Hintzen admitted, even as he pleaded for an 18-month sentence.

Police Sergeant Godfrey Playter, prosecuting, said that on March 2 last, prison officers were conducting a routine checking exercise during a ‘lock down’ when the prisoner was seen acting suspiciously as he passed Officer Phillips. A search was consequently carried out on his person, and 43 transparent Ziplock plastic bags were found in the defendant’s crotch.

The labourer was initially incarcerated for the unlawful killing of Jagdat Ramcharran during a robbery at Williamsburg, Corentyne, Berbice.