The Tribune

By LAMECH JOHNSON

Tribune Staff Reporter

ljohnson@tribunemedia.net

A MAN who claimed to police officers he found 108 packages of marijuana was sentenced to four years imprisonment yesterday after pleading guilty to drug possession with intent to supply.

While the possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply charge was withdrawn against his 36-year-old girlfriend, Demarice Delva, who pleaded not guilty, 42-year-old Ricardo Griffin of Cox Street, Fox Hill received the mandatory minimum sentence. The crime was alleged to have been committed on May 12.

When arraigned before Deputy Chief Magistrate Carolita Bethell yesterday, Griffin pleaded guilty to the charge and it was revealed in a summary of the case that he told officers he had found the drugs.

During a plea in mitigation, Griffin’s attorney, Jerone Roberts, told the magistrate that his client was not a wholesale buyer of drugs, but had only found them.

He also asked the court to take into consideration that his client had no previous convictions up to that point and had accepted responsibility immediately and understood that he would have to serve time.

The magistrate, taking all the factors into consideration, sentenced Griffin to four years at Her Majesty’s Prison.

She told the 42-year-old that he had the right to appeal her ruling.

Police proscutor ASP Ercell Dorsett withdrew the charge against Ms Delva.