By FARRAH JOHNSON
Tribune Staff Reporter
fjohnson@tribunemedia.net
A MAN caught with a quantity of marijuana earlier this month must pay $500 to avoid spending three months behind bars.
Police arrested Jeremiah Nixon after they found 5.8 ounces of Indian hemp on him on July 13.
The magistrate’s court was told yesterday that around 2.20pm on the day in question, a team of officers on mobile patrol in the Wulff Road area observed the accused who appeared to drop a plastic bag near a vacant lot.
They then approached him and informed him that he would be searched in reference to dangerous drugs and firearms. When they examined the bag he’d dropped, they found several silver foil wraps. He was subsequently arrested and taken to a nearby station where he admitted to the offence in an interview with police.
During his hearing before Magistrate Samuel McKinney, Nixon pleaded guilty to one count of possession.
He was subsequently fined $500 or three months at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.
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