22 year-old Shaquan Almendarez, who is already serving 3 years in jail for drug trafficking, received the bad news that another year in jail has been added to his prison term.
Almendarez was busted with 154 grams - or about 5.4 ounces of weed in December 2012 on Electric Avenue in Belize City. Almendarez was charged with drug trafficking.
When he was taken before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer, he pleaded guilty explaining that he did not intend to sell the weed. He said that it was only for his personal usage.
Senior Magistrate Frazer accepted his guilty plea for the lesser charge of possession of a controlled drugs, but due to the quantity, she sentenced him to 1 year in jail. That's a lenient sentence since he could have been sentenced to a fine of 3 years and 10 thousand dollars. Senior Magistrate Frazer ruled that the sentence should run concurrent to the one he's already serving, so he will spend only 3 years in jail. This is his second conviction for a quantity of marijuana treated as drug trafficking.
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