Taxi driver busted with 22kg ganja gets 4 years, fined $19.8M

Fifty-three-year-old Eusi Wilson, a taxi driver who was interception along High Street, Georgetown with 22 kilograms of cannabis in his motorcar on April 21, 2024, has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and fined $19.8 million by acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus, before whom he appeared and pleaded guilty as charged.

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) reported that, on the day in question, ranks conducting an operation along High Street intercepted a motorcar that was at the time being driven by Wilson, of Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice (EBB), upon observing Wilson acting suspiciously.
They searched the car and unearthed several bulky parcels containing cannabis. Wilson, the car and the cannabis were taken to CANU Headquarters, where the ganja was weighed and amounted to 22 kilograms.