Man jailed eight months over 3.5 lb marijuana in New Providence
Jamal Edgecombe, 33, pleaded guilty to possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply after 3.5 lbs of hydroponic marijuana was found in New Providence on 29 October 2026. Acting Chief Magistrate Ancella Evans sentenced him to eight months in prison, and the charge against co-accused Pedronique Brown was withdrawn.
Jamal Edgecombe, 33, pleaded guilty to possession of dangerous drugs with intent
to supply before Acting Chief Magistrate Ancella Evans.[1]After Edgecombe
accepted sole responsibility for the drugs, the charge against his co-accused,
25-year-old Pedronique Brown, was withdrawn.[1]Evans sentenced Edgecombe to
eight months in custody at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.[1]Inspector Deon Barr prosecuted the case.[1]
Edgecombe was found in possession of 3.5lbs (about 1.59 kg) of hydroponic
marijuana in New Providence on October 29, 2026.[1]Police valued the seized
marijuana at $7,000.[1]The sentencing took place on the Friday after the
drugs were found during the previous week.[1]
The report identifies the seized cannabis as hydroponic marijuana.[1]The
offence is described as possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply.[1]The court dealt with the case on Edgecombe’s guilty plea.[1]Brown faced
no further proceedings in this reported case once the charge against her was
withdrawn.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Only one source for this event could be opened; no second report confirming the plea and sentence was found.
The article dates publication to Monday, November 2, 2026 and sentencing to Friday, so 30 October 2026 is used as the incident date by inference; the article gives no calendar date for that Friday.
The article gives October 29 with no year; 2026 is used from the publication context.
The $7,000 value is reported with a $ sign only, recorded here as BSD consistent with local Bahamas reporting.
The 3.5lbs figure is converted to about 1.59 kg; no independent weighing is reported.
The article does not explicitly say Edgecombe was arrested, so no arrested figure is recorded.
Nassau police Drug Enforcement Unit officers searched a St. James Road residence off Kemp Road shortly after 3 p.m. on 5 November 2026 and arrested a 54-year-old man. They seized about 71.1 pounds (32.25 kg) of suspected hydroponic marijuana, which police valued at $142,000.
Bahamas police Drug Enforcement Unit officers searched a Scott Street residence in Grand Bahama shortly after 9:40 pm on 7 August 2026, found about 1.3 pounds (0.59 kg) of suspected hydroponic marijuana and $3,295 in cash, and arrested three men aged 24, 25 and 26. Police valued the cannabis at $2,060.
Three Bahamian men were charged after the U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Bahamas Defence Force seized 97 bales of cannabis, about 2,380 pounds, from their vessel near Great Inagua on 25 July 2026. A magistrate denied them bail.
A Bahamian magistrate sentenced Errol Wallace, 49, a Jamaican, to six years in prison after he admitted growing more than 30,000 marijuana plants for sale in East Grand Bahama, a crop valued at $3.2 million. His alleged accomplice, Daron Anderson, 38, of Freeport, denied a conspiracy charge and was to stand trial on July 8, 2014.
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