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Prison Weed in Bun and Apple
posted (January 6, 2015)
38 year-old Orven Usher, a resident of Fern Lane, tried to smuggle weed into the Belize Central Prison and tonight he's facing only a $500 fine instead of a prison sentence.

Usher was busted on Sunday, January 4 when he went to prison to take food for inmate Jed Burgess, who is on remand for the murder of Jamal Neal. When the bun was put through an x-ray machine some foreign substance were detected and when the bun was cut open the cannabis was found inside.

He was charged with drug possession, and he was arraigned today before the Senior Magistrate, where he pleaded guilty to the offence.

Senior Magistrate Fraser fined him $500 and gave him until February 28 to pay. If he defaults on payment he will serve 5 months. She told that he was lucky he had not come to court yesterday because he certainly would not have been fined. She was referring to a case yesterday in which she sentenced an 18 year to 6 months for trying to smuggle 46 grams of cannabis into prison in some apples.

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