Werk-en-Rust man gets three years for cocaine possession

Lance Walters was on Thursday sentenced to serve a three-year jail sentence after he was found guilty of cocaine possession.

Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry handed down the sentence at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, where she found Walters guilty beyond reasonable doubt at the conclusion of a trial.

The police’s case was that on November 30, 2012, Walters, 35, of 63 Cross Street, Werk-en-Rust,