Drug trafficking convictions land duo in jail with heavy fines

Two individuals faced the heavy arm of the law when they appeared at the Charity Magistrate’s Court on Friday, and were convicted of drug trafficking.
Mitzroy Dash was charged with trafficking 2.4 kilograms of cocaine.
After a review of the case and evidence presented, Magistrate Esther Sam found Dash guilty of the offence. Consequently, Dash was handed a three-year prison sentence and ordered to pay a fine of $2,160,000.
Similarly, Charles Abrams appeared at the same court on Friday facing charges of trafficking 294 grams of cannabis. He too was jailed by Magistrate Sam, who found him guilty of the offence.

As a result, Abrams was sentenced to two years behind bars and fined $264,300.
In 2021, Abrams and another individual appeared at the Charity Magistrate’s Court on a robbery-under-arms charge, after being on the run for nearly eight months.
On that occasion, they were each released on $150,000 bail.
Abrams, residing in Henrietta Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast, and Travis Persaud, a 31-year-old labourer, of Anna Regina Market Street, both on the Essequibo Coast, denied the allegations.
It was alleged that on May 3, 2020, at Mashabo, Essequibo Coast, while armed with dangerous weapons, they robbed Rudranauth Chandrika, 18, of a Lifan motorcycle valued at $220,000. This newspaper could not verify the outcome of that charge. (G9)