Layou man jailed two years and five weeks over 67 g of ganja and gun charges
Webster Edmund, 37, of Layou was sentenced at the St. Joseph court on 7 April 2011 to two years and five weeks in jail after pleading guilty to possessing 67 grams of marijuana with intent to supply, possessing a firearm and possessing ammunition. He was later sentenced separately to eight years and nine months for kidnapping and sexual offences.
Webster Edmund, 37, of Layou was sentenced to two years and five weeks in jail
at the St. Joseph court on 7 April 2011, after pleading guilty to four charges.[1]He had been brought to court on ten charges three days after he and a
missing Layou teenager were found.[1]
On 7 April 2011 the St. Joseph court dealt with only four charges: unlawful
possession of 67 grams of marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to
supply, possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition.[1]Edmund had
previous dealings with the law before these charges.[1]The four charges were
among ten brought after Edmund and the teenager were found in the Hillsborough
Estate area, three days before his first court appearance.[2]The court heard
that Edmund had held the teenager for 40 days, and he had pleaded guilty only to
the drug charges at that stage.[2]
Edmund was later tried separately for kidnapping and sexual offences, and on 15
March 2013 the High Court sentenced him to a total of eight years and nine
months in jail.[3]That later account says his marijuana sentence was five
weeks, and that a separate two-year four-month term in 2001 was for unlawful
possession of a firearm and ammunition.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Charged
1
Convicted
1
Sentenced
1
Cannabis
67 g
Prison
two years and five weeks
Agency
St. Joseph court
Agency type
Court, Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (67 g)
Activity
Possession, Sale
Setting
Home
Charges
unlawful possession of marijuana; possession of marijuana with intent to supply; possession of a firearm; possession of ammunition
The 2011 article says Edmund would serve 'two years and five weeks' in jail, while its 2013 retrospective says he received a five-week sentence for the marijuana charges and a separate two-year four-month sentence in 2001 for a firearm offence; the report uses the 2011 total as stated and treats the difference as unresolved.
The article does not give the sentence imposed on each of the four charges, nor name the judge or the court that imposed the two-year element.
The court's exact location within St. Joseph is not specified beyond 'the St. Joseph court'.
UPDATE: Webster Edmond gets eight years in jail (Dominica News Online) could not be opened again to check its quotations (The browser page answered HTTP 404.; archived fallback unavailable (no accessible Wayback capture was found). No AI research was started); what it says is as the AI read it.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dominica News Online: Defence attorney Peter Alleyne asked the court for leniency, saying Edmund had cooperated with police and had not wasted the court's time.
Jordan Marshall, 29, of The Morne, St. Joseph, Dominica pleaded guilty to cultivating 1,352 cannabis plants found in an indoor nursery at his home and was fined $7,500. His brothers Shanly and Linson, arrested with him in the 10 February 2022 raid, pleaded not guilty and had their cases dismissed.
A 49-year-old man from Mahaut pleaded guilty to possessing and cultivating one cannabis tree that Mahaut police found growing in a white pail in his yard. Chief Magistrate Evalina Baptiste fined him EC$2,200 for cultivation and EC$800 on the other count, payable by 21 October 2012, with a seven-month jail term if he defaulted.
Betham Valmond of Sineku was sentenced to two months in prison in Dominica after pleading guilty to possessing 155 grams of marijuana with intent to supply. Police on patrol at Mahaut River in the Carib Territory said they saw him offering weed to people in a yard from a backpack.
Curvel St. Rose, 32, of Bath Estate and Massacre pleaded guilty in Dominica on 14 May 2012 to possessing 210 grams of cannabis and possessing it with intent to supply after police found the drug in a bag on his scooter at Canefield. Chief Magistrate Evalina Baptiste fined him EC$4,000 and gave him until 30 October 2012 to pay, with 13 months in jail if he did not.
