A 54-year-old caretaker must pay the State $100,000 after he was found with eight grams of cocaine on his person. Lawrence Gittens of Croal Street, Georgetown, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Friday where he pleaded guilty to trafficking the illicit drug.
Lawrence Gittens
According to the prosecution’s facts, on September 1 at Hadfield Street, Georgetown, ranks on a Police patrol observed Gittens acting suspiciously and arrested him.
During a search of Gittens’s person, the ranks found a quantity of cocaine in his left side pants pocket.
In the end, Senior Magistrate Leron Daly sentenced Gittens to pay a fine of $100,000 for the offence or in default one year in prison.
Last month, a 57-year-old man of Middle Road, Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was jailed for six months after pleading guilty to a narcotics-related charge.
Michael Singh, called “Mikey”, appeared before Magistrate Ruschelle Liverpool at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Courts.
Earlier in that month, a 29-year-old man was sentenced to six months in prison on a similar charge.
Tony Singh had appeared before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where he pleaded guilty to trafficking 3.9 grams of cocaine on August 10, 2022.
He was given the option to pay a $30,000 fine or serve six months in jail for the offence. He opted for the latter, telling the court that he would smoke the illicit drug. As a result, the Magistrate also ordered that he be sent for rehabilitation.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) had stated that Police ranks searched Tony Singh and found a cigarette pack containing a quantity of cocaine in the crotch of his pants.
The ranks were at the time carrying out operations at Bourda Street, Georgetown. As such, he was arrested, and escorted to the Alberttown Police Station and later prosecuted.
