By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A MAN was fined $600 after admitting to having over six and a half ounces of marijuana in his house earlier this week.
Magistrate Samuel McKinney initially charged Andy Miller, 60, with possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply.
Levan Johnson represented the accused.
Miller was arrested after police found more than six ounces of marijuana in his house on Buttonwood Street on October 3.
After Miller pleaded guilty, the charge was reduced to simple possession of dangerous drugs. He was then convicted and fined $600 or risk three months in prison.
Another man was also fined for drugs.
Magistrate Raquel Whyms charged Alex Homere, 25, with possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply.
Police arrested Homere after finding one ounce of marijuana on the TV stand in his room on Kool Air Subdivisions on October 2. The drugs had an estimated street value of $100.
After pleading guilty to the offence, Homere was fined $500 or risk two months in prison. He was also placed on eight months probation; a breach would incur a two-month prison term.
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