Dominica man jailed two months for selling 155 g of ganja
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.
Betham Valmond, a resident of Sineku in Dominica’s Carib Territory, was
sentenced to two months in prison after pleading guilty to possessing cannabis
with intent to supply.[1]He was arrested and charged on 12 May 2012 at Mahaut
River, also in the Carib Territory.[1]
Police on patrol said they saw him walking along the main road with a black
backpack and then entering a yard, calling out offers of weed for $5, $10 or
$20.[1]The officers approached him, searched him and recovered 155 grams of
marijuana in the bag.[1]Valmond told police he was selling the drug so that
he could “set up his shack”.[1]
Magistrate Candia George reminded him that he had been given several chances in
the past for various offences when he asked the court for leniency.[1]Before
sentencing, she told him that although he might be making a quick buck for
himself he was destroying the lives of others and should stop.[1]Online News
From Dominica republished the Dominica News Online account the same day with a
link to the original post.[2]
Case data
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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.
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.
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.
