Parika man gets 5 years, fined $5.4M for possession of imported ganja
Sentenced: Andy Jainandan
Thirty-year-old Andy Jainandan of Parika, East Bank Essequibo (EBE), who was busted with $1.8 million of imported ganja was on Tuesday sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.
Jainandan appeared before Magistrate Dylon Bess at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where he pleaded guilty to possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking and was fined $5.4 million.
The accused was arrested on Saturday with 12 lbs of “poppy” during a Customs Anti-Narcotics operation at Zeeburg Public Road, EBE.
The imported cannabis found in the haversack
It was reported that on the day in question, Jainandan was carrying a haversack when he was intercepted by CANU officers. A search was subsequently carried out on the haversack during which five brick-like parcels suspected to be cannabis were found.
As such, Jainandan was cautioned and taken to CANU Headquarters where the suspected cannabis was tested and positively identified as imported cannabis known as “poppy”. The narcotics were weighed and amounted to 5.36 kg with a street value of approximately $1.8 million.
