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Trinidadians convicted in St. Vincent on drugs charges quarrel for food after court appearance.
Four Trinidadians who a court in St. Vincent ordered to pay a fine of EC$25,000 on marijuana charges fret over food as they were transported to prison on Friday 25th October 2024 2024.
The 240lbs of marijuana they harvested after eight months in St. Vincent will be destroyed.
Four Trinidadians who came to St. Vincent and the Grenadines to learn to plant marijuana were each ordered on Thursday to pay a fine of EC$25,000 or spend a year in prison.
Senior Magistrate Colin John order the men — Damian Baptiste aka Tall Boy, 29; Shaqkeim Bolah aka Ming, 21; Isaiah Phillips aka Izzy, 23; and Jayron Abraham aka Fat Boy, 21 — to pay the fines forthwith.
They were initially arraigned at the Serious Offences Court on Oct. 7 on charges that they had the drug in their possession with intent to supply it to another at Petit Bordel on Oct. 3, the same day they allegedly had it in their possession for the purpose of drug trafficking.
They each pleaded “guilty with an explanation” to the charges during their arraignment at the Serious Offences Court on Oct.7.Vincentian Tevin Matthews, of Petit Bordel, who was jointly charged that between Feb. 1 and May 4, at Petit Bordel, they conspired to traffic the drug, pleaded not guilty.Matthews was granted bail and the Trinidadians were remanded in custody and the matter was disposed of on Thursday after a number of adjournments.
In mitigation, defence Counsel Grant Connell said the men were all farmers and had no previous convictions.
He said they were extremely remorseful for their action, adding that his instructions were that they had met a Vincentian young man on Facebook and expressed to them their interest in growing marijuana.
“They were invited to come to SVG to learn how to plant. They caught a boat because they could not afford the flight,” the lawyer told the court.
“They went to Petit Bordel, stayed until the crop was over and to fulfil the purpose they came here for,” Connell said.
After considering the aggravating and mitigating factors of the case, the magistrate arrived at a fine of EC$40,500. The final fine was EC$25,000 after the court deducted one-third for the early guilty plea and EC$2,000 for the time spent on remand.
“The fact that you are non-national and if you are given time to pay, we cannot guarantee that the order will be enforced, the same way you came here unannounced and unofficially you might leave unannounced and unofficially as well, because of that, I have to impose the fine forthwith,” the magistrate said.
(Story and video courtesy iWitness News)
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