A waitress found guilty of trafficking in marijuana was on Tuesday jailed for four years and fined $2.7 million.
Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo found 41-year-old Pulmattie Harricharran called ‘Shorty’ guilty when she appeared before her at the New Amsterdam Magistrates’ Court.
Harricharran of Charles Place, New Amsterdam, a mother of two, was charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. It was alleged that the waitress who worked at a Chinese restaurant in New Amsterdam had 2,300 grammes of marijuana at her home on March 12, 2009.
Harricharran’s husband, Fidel Fitzgerald Glasgow, 32, had pleaded guilty to the same charge earlier and was sentenced to five years in jail.
Last year, reports said, police in Berbice raided the couple’s Charles Place, New Amsterdam residence and found Harricharran tending to the ganja which was spread out on zinc sheets in the house. She was arrested and the ganja was seized and when weighed amounted to 2300 grammes.
Glasgow, according to reports, who was not at home at the time of the raid, later called the police and arranged a meeting for them to “work something out”. It was alleged that he promised to “set them right”. However, when Glasgow showed up for the proposed meeting, he was arrested.
When he appeared in court, Glasgow told the magistrate that the marijuana was his and that he and a friend had brought it down from the Berbice River.