The Camp Street prison has gotten another inmate. Yesterday Nigerian National, Michael Solomon was jailed for eight years when he pleaded guilty to two counts of drug trafficking charges, after an appearance in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.On September 9, last at ‘E’ Field Sophia, Solomon,Wholesale NFL Jerseys China, 32, had 91.55 grams of cocaine in his possession for the purpose of trafficking.Further, between September 9 and 15 last,Cheap NFL Authentic Jerseys, at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) he had 245.6 grams of cocaine in his possession also, for the purpose of trafficking.Solomon’s Attorney,Stitched Jerseys, who arrived after his client had pleaded to the charges begged for him to be sentenced in mitigation. The attorney pointed out that his client is a father of one.He said that the court should consider the fact that Simon pleaded guilty because he did not want to waste the court’s time.Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan sentenced Simon to four years imprisonment on each charge. The sentences will run concurrently. In addition, he was ordered to pay a fine of $745,Jerseys From China,470.In relation to the first charge, Police Prosecutor, Corporal Deniro Jones told the court that Simon is a Nigerian National, who came to Guyana on vacation.Jones informed the court that on the day in question, the police acting on information went to the home of the defendant at Lot 141 ‘E’ Field Sophia, and conducted a search.During the search the police found a transparent zip lock plastic bag containing six pellets under a wall facing. The pellets were probed and a whitish rock-like substance was found inside of them suspected to be cocaine.Simon was arrested by the police and taken into custody,Cheap NFL Jerseys China Wholesale, where the substance tested positive for cocaine. It was subsequently weighed in his presence and amounted to 91.55 grammes.As it relates to the second charge,NFL Jerseys From China, the prosecutor explained while in custody, Simon confessed to police that he had swallowed cocaine. He was taken to GPHC,Wholesale NBA Jerseys, where he excreted 16 pellets containing the illicit substance. |