by Sacha Walters, Staff Reporter
A carpenter from St. Catherine might have been trying to give himself an early birthday present when he attempted to smuggle 4.09 kgs of marijuana into Tobago.
On August 4, two days before his 38th birthday, Carlton Smith from Cardwell district in St. Catherine was about to board his flight at the Norman Manley International Airport when he was stopped, interviewed and volunteered to be searched. The police found four rectangular parcels of marijuana wrapped in brown masking tape in his luggage.
He was arrested and charged with the offences. When he appeared before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday he was sentenced to pay a fine of $11,400 or six months imprisonment, hard labour for possession, $57,000 or six months imprisonment, hard labour for attempting to export marijuana and there was no verdict made on the dealing charge.
He will serve a mandatory six months imprisonment and if the fines are not paid he will serve a total of one year imprisonment.
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