Two men were each fined $200,000 for driving under the influence of alcohol, while a Bartica gold miner was sentenced to three years in prison for drug trafficking, following guilty pleas before Magistrate Caressa Henry at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court this week.
Davell Mendonca, 26, of Second Avenue, Bartica, and Ronald Kanhai, 33, of Hope, East Coast Demerara, appeared separately on Monday and pleaded guilty to driving under the influence. Mendonca was ordered to pay the fine or serve three months in prison; Kanhai was ordered to pay the same amount or serve two months.
On Tuesday, Cyprian Pollard, called “Jacko”, 60, a gold miner also of Second Avenue, Bartica, pleaded guilty to possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.
The police statements did not specify the alcohol readings in the driving cases or the type and quantity of narcotics involved in Pollard’s case.
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