Elderly food vendor gets community service after admitting ganja possession

An elderly food vendor was among two persons ordered to perform 52 consecutive Saturdays of community service after pleading guilty to drug possession in separate cases yesterday.

In the first case, food vendor Barbara Pindar, 63, of Lot 64 Broad Street, Charlestown, was charged with having nine grammes of cannabis in her possession on September 24.

Prosecutor Kerry Bostwick told Magistrate Judy Latchman that on the day in question,