30 year-old Trevor Gillett is spending his spending the first night of a 3 year sentence after he was convicted of drug trafficking in Magistrates Court today.
3 police officers testified against Gillett before Magistrate Herbert Panton that on June 15, 2013, at around 9 p.m., he was riding his bike on Partridge Street Extension. That’s when he encountered the officers who were on foot patrol. They stopped and searched him for drugs and guns. Inside his right tennis shoe they found 2 bags of weed, to a total weight of 220 grams – or 7.76 ounces.
In his defence, Gillett denied that he had the drugs on him.
After considering all the evidence, Magistrate Panton found him guilty of the charge, and sentenced him to serve 3 years in prison. Magistrate Panton also sentenced him to pay a fine of $10,000, by August 6 2017, or he will have to serve an additional 3 years in prison.
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