Police executing a search warrant at his Allamby Gap, Spooner’s Hill, St Michael home caught 25-year-old Shavar Dominique Murray carrying cannabis plants, arrested him and charged him.[1] Around 10 a.m. on 14 August 2020 officers found him holding several plants and he tried to throw them over a galvanised paling in the backyard before stopping when commanded.[1] He told officers he had grown the plants in seven plant pots, a plastic case and half a can, and a further search of the yard found one marijuana plant behind a fowl pen, three inside the pen and nine more in a corner of the backyard.[1]

On 15 August 2020 Murray pleaded guilty before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant to possession, possession with intent to supply, possession with intent to traffic and cultivation of 1.51 pounds of cannabis, offences dated to 13 August.[1] Prosecutor Station Sergeant Cameron Gibbons put the estimated street value of the cannabis at 4,500 dollarss dollars.[1] The court ordered a pre-sentencing report, Murray, who was not known to the courts, was released on 4,000 dollars bail and is due back before the No. 2 District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on 23 October 2020 for sentencing.[1] He was on 4,000 dollars bail in the meantime.[1]