32-year-old Dean Crawford, who worked as a prison officer until last year, was convicted of drug trafficking in Magistrate's Court today. It was alleged that on October 2, 2011 he tried passed two bags of weed in to the prison, but he was caught in the act.
In the trial, Prison Officer Raynard Valencio testified that initially, nothing incriminating was found on any of the workers during the routine check on that day, a check which included Crawford as well.
Valencio said that after he moved off, a piece of marijuana fell out of Crawford's jacket pocket and that made them become suspicious.
Crawford was then taken into a room where a thorough search was done on him, and they ordered him to take off his work boots.
During the search of the boots, Officer Valencio found two bags suspected marijuana which were hidden under the soles. As a result, he was arrested and charged with drug trafficking.
In his defense this afternoon, Crawford told the court that the jacket was not his and that the weed was for another man and also not his.
Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith did not accept this explanation and as a result, she found him guilty.
She sentenced him to pay a fine of 10 thousand dollars, and she ordered that he had to pay three thousand of that amounts forthwith, or spend six months in default.
He must pay the balance of 7 thousand dollars by January 2013, and if he defaults on that payment he will spend an additional two years in prison.
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