Timehri man jailed four years over Hauraruni cannabis farm
Nishart Samsundar, 20, was jailed for four years and fined G$1,778,400 on 31 January 2024 after pleading guilty to trafficking and cultivation following a CANU raid on a cannabis farm at Hauraruni Village.
🇬🇾 Hauraruni Village, off the Soesdyke-Linden Highway · Guyana
Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit officers raided a cannabis farm at Hauraruni
Village off the Soesdyke-Linden Highway on 25 January 2024 and arrested
Nazelena Alli, 33, and Nishart Samsundar, 20, both of Timehri North, East
Bank Demerara.[1][2]
At two camps the officers found about 200 cannabis plants and some 5,000
nursery plants, seized1.976 kg of cannabis and a 12-gauge cartridge, and
destroyed the plants together with about 100 pounds of leaves, seeds and
stems.[1][2]
On 31 January Samsundar appeared before Magistrate Scarce at the Diamond
Magistrate’s Court and pleaded guilty to possession of narcotics for the
purpose of trafficking and to cultivating a prohibited plant.[2]He was
sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and fined G$1,778,400 for the
trafficking offence and four years for cultivation, the terms to run
concurrently.[2]
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The seized 12-gauge cartridge and nursery seedlings in trays at the Hauraruni campPhoto details
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