It can be a bit of lottery in the court system when it comes to drug charges, but clearly it pays to go big.
Side by side:
(iNews) “A 21–year–old farmer was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined $30,000 for the possession of Marijuana. Sydney Davis of Waicahdai Village pleaded guilty to the charge, which stated that on September 18 at Karasbai Police Station, he had in his possession 39.5 grammes of Marijuana.
“Leonard Bacchus (who also plead guilty) who was arrested three years ago after a police raid netted the $300M worth of narcotics, which was contained in kunds, was handed a five year suspended sentence by Magistrate Alex Moore when the matter came to a close on Tuesday.
Bacchus was also given a slap on the wrist suspended sentence of two years for being in unlawful possession of 125, 12-gauge cartridges and 115, .32 rounds of ammunition, which also stemmed from the raid on his block 20 Enmore/Haslington Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara home on August 16, 2001.”