SACHA WALTERS, Staff Reporter
A 22-YEAR-OLD man will be serving time and will have to pay hefty fines after attempting to smuggle marijuana into Trinidad.
Omar Pollack from a Maxfeild Park address was arrested and charged with possession, dealing and taking steps to export marijuana.
On July 15, at approximately 5 p.m. the young man was going to board a BWIA flight to Trinidad when his luggage was searched and a false compartment found in the base of his black suitcase. Eight rectangular parcels of marijuana weighing 4.09 kgs were found wrapped in transparent plastic and blue carbon paper.
Pollack told the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday that he was unemployed at the time and that is why he did it.
Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey sentenced him to pay a fine of $14,400 or six months' imprisonment at hard labour for the possession and $53,200 or six months' imprisonment at hard labour for taking steps to export marijuana. There was no verdict on the dealing charge. Additionally he will serve a mandatory six months imprisonment and if the fines are not paid he will serve a year.
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