Man fined for misusing cash for gambling, drugs

A man was fined $25,000 yesterday after he told a city court that he took money entrusted to him to buy alcohol and used it instead to gamble and buy drugs.

“Guilty, mistress!” Deochand Ragubeer immediately declared when Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond asked him if he was guilty of converting Rawle Barclay’s $11,700