A 50-year-old Surinamese national pleaded guilty to possessing narcotics for the purpose of trafficking when the charge was read to him at the Springlands Magistrates’ Court on 8 March 2017.[1] Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh sentenced him to three years in prison.[1]

A Surinamese national was arrested by police on Monday, 6 March 2017, on his way back home with 242 grams of marijuana.[1] Police arrested the man as he was about to board a boat at the Number 78 village foreshore to travel to Suriname along the backtrack route.[1] At about 08:30 that day an officer carrying out routine searches on speedboat passengers searched a man who was behaving suspiciously.[1] The officer found a pair of jockey shorts holding two compact parcels wrapped in scotch tape.[1] The parcels were opened in his presence and were found to contain leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be marijuana.[1] The items were weighed at Springlands Police Station in his presence and came to 242 grams.[1] The man, of Nickerie in Suriname, had been travelling home when he was stopped.[1]