ACTING Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson Friday sentenced Nazim Khan to three years’ imprisonment for trafficking in three grammes of cocaine. Khan, 38, of 4 Fifth Street, Mon Repos North, East Coast Demerara, pleaded guilty to two charges which said, on September 1 last, he trafficked in three grammes of cocaine and had in his possession two grammes of cannabis.
Khan told the court that he had a few beers with someone he works with on sea and that this individual offered him a smoke.
He claimed that police officers asked him for $20,000 to drop the matter, but he told them he only had $5000, hence his appearance in court.
He said he decided to plead guilty because he did not wish to waste the court’s time.
Police Inspector Stephen Telford, prosecuting, said the officers were on foot patrol on Cornhill Street when they carried out a search on Khan’s person and found the narcotics in his right side pants pocket.
He was sentenced to three years in jail and was fined $10,000 on the cocaine charge, and $10,000 and two weeks’ community service in prison on the cannabis possession charge.