Tonight, an entire family of 6 is back at home after they dodged a drug trafficking charge after one of the members pleaded guilty to weed the found on the family's property.
According to police, they conducted a search on a residence located at number 52 C Dean Street on Police say that on Saturday, February 2, at about 5:30 a.m.
Present at the time were Mark Anthony Betson, his mother, 54 year-old Patricia Wayne, 22 year-old Ludrick Wagner, 29 year-old Giovanni Barrella, 29 year-old Natasha Gilbert, 70 year-old Gilbert Lightburn, and 33 year-old Clifford Betson.
According to the officers, they found a black plastic bag in the yard which contained 62 grams - or 2.19 ounces - of cannabis. As a result, all 7 of the occupants were jointly charged with drug trafficking.
They were all brought to court today where they were arraigned before Magistrate Adolph Lucas, where Betson wasted no time and claimed the weed with a guilty plea.
He told the court that he uses it for pain he experiences in his left leg which has been amputated at the knee joint. He also said that his family had no idea that it was there, and that he had no intentions to sell it.
Because it is his first drug trafficking conviction, Magistrate Lucas sentenced him to pay a fine of $10,000 by December 31, 2013, or he will spend 3 years in prison if he defaults.
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