After leaving his home at Kuru Kuru College area yesterday morning, little did Derick Persaud know that he would not be returning there until the next four years. Persaud was found guilty by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for cultivating marijuana.On March 25,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, 2009,Maillot Psg Pas Cher, at a proximately 12:15 hrs, police were carrying out an eradication exercise in Kuru Kuru Backdam,NFL Jerseys Authentic China, when ranks came upon Persaud tending to a field of marijuana plants. As a result he was told of the offence, cautioned and taken to the police station where he was arrested and placed into custody.He was however granted his per-trial liberty after making his first court appearance.During the trial, two witnesses were called by the prosecution to give evidence in chief.Before handing down the sentence, Magistrate Beharry enquired from the accused if he had anything to say,Cheap NHL Jerseys, Persaud said that he has his mother, father and a three-year-old child, he also pleaded with the court to have mercy on him.He said that he is a first time offender and is gainfully employed as a chainsaw operator. But the court had found him guilty beyond reasonable doubt and fined him $30,Wholesale Jerseys,000 together with four years in the Camp Street penitentiary.And making her second court appearance before the same Magistrate was American citizen, Maxine Batts,NFL Jerseys China, who was charged with possession of cocaine.As the case was called, police prosecutor, Inspector Stephen Telford told the Magistrate that he was not in position to commence Batts’s trial.Magistrate Beharry told Telford that she will allow him one last date, which will be on Wednesday February 9.As the elderly crippled Batts was informed of her next court date,Wholesale China Jerseys, she asked to be sent back to the New Amsterdam prison because of the condition at the East La Penitence Station is unhealthy and that she has not been given any food.“My worship I would like to be sent back to Berbice jail because where I am staying now has no mattress for me to sleep on and I am not getting anything to eat.”Based on reports, the accused was brought down from the New Amsterdam Prison last Friday to facilitate her appearance yesterday in court.She was told that due to the early date that was set for her next trial, her request could not have been granted.
