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Smuggling Wah Lee Christmas Weed?
posted (December 24, 2014)

Prison Officers say that 24 year-old Rufus Castillo tried to smuggle Christmas weed into the Belize Central Prison for his inmate cousin, and tonight, he's facing a fine which he must pay or else, he will be jailed.

The incident happened yesterday when Castillo took a plastic bag to the entrance of the prison. An officer searched the bag and realized that 21 grams – or 0.74 ounces – of marijuana was craftily hidden under the bottom of a deodorant cover. He called police who arrested and charged Castillo with possession of controlled drugs.

He was arraigned today before the Senior Magistrate, where he pleaded guilty and explained that his cousin's girlfriend did not explain that drugs were inside the deodorant. Senior Magistrate Frazer sentenced him to pay a fine of $500, by February 28, 2015.

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