La Penitence man gets 4 years for narco-trafficking
— accomplice remanded
Forty-year-old Jason Heligar of Independence Boulevard, East La Penitence, Georgetown, was on Friday sentenced to four years’ imprisonment by Magistrate Wanda Fortune after he was found guilty of narcotics trafficking.
Jason Heligar
Heligar, who was also fined $13,608,000, pleaded guilty to the offence during a virtual court appearance at the Linden Magistrate’s Court. However, his accomplice, twenty-year-old Mark English of C Field, Sophia, Georgetown, pleaded not guilty to the charge and was remanded to prison.
The duo was charged with the offence of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking, and according to court documents, they were caught with 9072 grams of cannabis sativa.
English was remanded to prison until August 17, 2020.
