Lethem resident gets 3 years, fined $450K for narco-trafficking

Forty-four-year-old Sherlon Kissoon of Tabatinga, Lethem, Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) was on Tuesday sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined $450,000 on a drug possession charge.
Kissoon appeared before Magistrate Wilson at the Lethem Magistrate’s Court where he was found guilty of having 600 grams of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking.

Kissoon and a woman were taken into custody on October 19, 2022, following the discovery of more than two kilograms of cannabis at Tabatinga, Lethem, Region Nine.
It was reported that ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU), conducted an operation in Tabatinga, Lethem where they intercepted a motor vehicle bearing registration number, HD 5840, which they searched in the presence of Kissoon and unearthed four parcels of cannabis.
Further investigation led to the search of a residence at Tabatinga, Lethem during which 14 parcels of cannabis were found.
Kissoon and the woman were taken to the CANU office in Lethem, where the cannabis seized in the motor vehicle was weighed and amounted to 600 grams, while the cannabis found at the premises amounted to two kilograms.
Kissoon was subsequently charged.