A murder accused prisoner was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday after admitting to the ownership of cannabis found in his food at the Camp Street Prison.
“Man, it ain’t mek sense I waste de court time. It’s mine. I’m guilty,” Odel Roberts, 23, told Principal Magistrate Faith McGusty in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court Five.
In addition to serving the three years, Roberts, 23, has also been ordered to pay a $30,000 fine.
The charge against him stated that on July 3rd, at the Camp Street Prison in Georgetown, he had 102 grammes of cannabis in his possession for the purpose of trafficking.
