Berbice clothes vendor busted with 19.25lbs ganja in suitcase
– sentenced to 3 years, 9 months
The clothes vendor witnessing the weighing of the ganja
Thirty-seven-year-old Shabika Spencer, a clothes vendor of New Amsterdam, Berbice, was on Wednesday arrested in Georgetown with 19.25 pounds of marijuana following an intelligence-led operation conducted by members of the Police Narcotics Branch.
Based on reports received, on Wednesday at about 17:45h, a team of Police ranks, acting on intelligence received, went to Vlissengen Road, Georgetown and intercepted a motor vehicle in which the suspect was an occupant. During the search of that vehicle, the ranks observed a black suitcase next to the suspect, who was in the back passenger seat.
Shabika Spencer with the ganja on Wednesday at the CID Headquarters
Upon inspection of that suitcase, several wrapped packages with cannabis were found.
Spencer was told of the allegation, cautioned, and arrested. She and the 13 compact parcels of cannabis were taken to CID Headquarters, where the ganja was weighed and amounted to 19.25 pounds.
Spencer made an appearance at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, where she pleaded guilty to trafficking in narcotics and was sentenced to three years, nine months’ imprisonment and fined $7.9 million.
