By PAVEL BAILEY
A WOMAN was fined yesterday after being found in possession of more than $3,000 worth of marijuana which she said belonged to her boyfriend.
Dymphna Brown, 37, of Marigold Farm Road, stood before Senior Magistrate Samuel McKinney on charges of possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply.
During the last day of her trial, Detective Sergeant Gareth Rolle explained to the court that on May 1, 2019 officers conducted a search warrant of her residence.
During that search, officers found a black plastic bag containing a suspicious substance under the bed of a southeastern bedroom.
Inside that black bag was a brown taped package which once torn revealed a grassy substance later positively identified as 3.2lbs of Indian hemp. The estimated street value of the drugs was $3,100.
Upon the discovery of the drugs the accused reportedly told officers, “That ain’t mine it belongs to my boyfriend O’Ryan.”
While the accused’s boyfriend O’Ryan Dickerson, 34, faced the same charge as Brown he has so far managed to evade police custody as he fled the scene in Brown’s black SUV shortly after her arrest.
When Det Sgt Rolle was asked by prosecutor Inspector Timothy Bain where the drugs were found in Brown’s residence, he told the court that the accused said the room in which the drugs were found was not the room in which she sleeps.
Brown maintains that it was Dickerson’s bedroom, which she claims was used for storage, where police recovered the drugs. Brown also said she sleeps in the other bedroom of her two-bedroom home.
Brown’s attorney Ian Cargill, during his cross-examination of Det Sgt Rolle, got confirmation from the officer that they never found the drugs on Brown’s person or in her bedroom.
In the end, Magistrate McKinney ordered the accused to pay a $2,500 fine on the drug charge or risk six months in prison.
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