FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD Raymond Tinnis was, on Monday, sentenced to three years in prison and fined $8, 820,000 for trafficking 21 pounds of marijuana.

The custodial sentence was handed down by Magistrate Marisa Mittelholzer at the Vigilance Magistrates’ Courts, where Tinnis had been on trial for the offence of possession of narcotic for the purpose of trafficking.
Though he had initially pleaded not guilty to the charge, Magistrate Mittelholzer found the defendant guilty as charged on Monday.
The Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU), in a statement, said that officers intercepted a motor car with a sole occupant on the Mahaica Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD) on June 2, 2022.
A subsequent search of the vehicle revealed a parcel containing cannabis in the vehicle’s trunk. Tinnis, then 47, along with the narcotics, was escorted to CANU’s Headquarters.
The drugs tested positive for cannabis with a total weight of 9.8 kilogrammes (21 pounds).
It had a street value of approximately $3 million.