Jagmohan Murray, a 37-year-old Guyanese national who had lived in Barbados for more than a decade, admitted cultivating marijuana and two possession offences in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court.[1] He was fined $5,000, payable within three months, and faces six months in prison if he does not pay the fine at the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court.[1]

Police searched Murray’s home at 1st Avenue Accommodation Road, Bush Hall, St Michael, on May 30 and found 867 seedlings of marijuana.[1] Sergeant Robert Jones of the police said the drugs weighed 600 grammes and had an estimated street value of $3,000.[1] Murray told police he is a herbalist who likes marijuana herbs and said he and his wife had been in an argument and he was put out.[1] Murray said he had built a little shack in the bush and studied how to make a little extra change, planting the marijuana the previous year and selling about $500 or $400 of it.[1]

Murray was jointly charged with his 46-year-old wife Roseann Maria Murray, who pleaded not guilty to possession, possession with intent to supply and trafficking of cannabis.[1] Roseann Maria Murray was granted bail of $3,000 to return to court on October 6.[1] Murray was fined on the supply charge and was convicted, reprimanded and discharged on all the other cannabis offences.[1]