Ganja dealer gets five years for sale to undercover cop

A drug trafficker who sold ganja to an undercover police officer was sentenced to five years in jail at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

Horace Stephen, 31, of Best Squatting Area, West Coast Demerara pleaded guilty to the charge of trafficking in narcotics and was sentenced to five years imprisonment as well as a fined $100 000 by Magistrate Sherdel Marcus.

His partner, Nita Rogers, 36, and a mother of two was also charged with the same offence and was remanded to prison after she pleaded not