Deron Walters pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court on 16 May 2017 to intending to supply the 706 grams of marijuana police found in his motor scooter nearly two years earlier.[1] He had earlier pleaded not guilty to possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply to another, and the plea ended his months-long trial.[1] He had already admitted the separate charge of possessing the same drugs.[1] An officer of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force testified that Walters refused to name his alleged supplier.[1]
Police were at premises in 2015 when Walters arrived on 15 July, smelt marijuana on him and searched him and his scooter.[1] The court heard that officers found a yellow bag containing marijuana and $600 on Walters, and charged him at the Road Town Police Station.[1] The Fat Hogs Bay resident is represented by attorney-at-law Stacey Abel, and Magistrate Ayanna Baptiste-DaBreo was expected to sentence him for both offences on 7 July 2017.[1]
Walters was also before the Magistrate’s Court on assault and offensive-weapon charges, and faced cocaine charges after a search of his vehicle in Baughers Bay on 16 March 2017.[1]
On 7 December 2017, the 30-year-old Fat Hogs Bay resident was sentenced to 22 months in prison with a $26,475 fine to be paid by June 2018 or an extra six months in prison.[2] He was still awaiting sentencing on separate cocaine charges in December 2017, with a hearing set for 15 January 2018.[2]
