Shemroy Robertson, called “Minutes,” was on Friday sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment and fined $30,000 for aiding the commission of trafficking 1.174 kilograms (kg) of cannabis.
Jailed: Shemroy Robertson
Robertson appeared before Magistrate Azore at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court, where the ruling was handed down following a trial into the 2021 offence.
The case stemmed from a Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) operation on June 17 2021, during which officers intercepted a minibus at Ann’s Grove Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD), and arrested a suspect found with an illicit substance.
Robertson was later arrested on June 28, 2021 in connection with the bust.
Court records and CANU reports indicate that Robertson has a history of narcotics-related arrests. On January 15, 2016, he was charged alongside another suspect with possession of 1.156 kg of cocaine. While the other suspect was released, Robertson was ordered to stand trial in the High Court and granted bail in the sum of $600,000; a matter that remains pending.
He was also arrested on March 6, 2017, along with three other individuals, but charges against him in that case were later dropped.
