Petite Savanne man faces court for marijuana

A Petite Savanne man could go to jail for four months in late September.

Thirty-one-year old Stoutley Antoine has been warned that that will happen if he does not pay up an EC$2,000.00 fine by September 30.

Antoine received the fine after pleading guilty to a to a charge of possession with intent to supply cannabis.

According to police inspector Claude Weekes, Antoine was arrested and charged at his premises in Petite Savanne after police conducted a search there.

It was reported that 332 grams of marijuana was recovered from the basement of his home and on a pathway near his home.

When asked how the marijuana got outside Antoine told the police that some of it fell while he was running when he saw them coming.

The defendant was represented by attorney Gena Dyer Munroe who begged the court to “temper justice with mercy.”

She told the court that the defendant was an unemployed man who sought assistance from his family at times to survive, and urged Magistrate Candia George to impose a “reasonable” fine on her client.

The attorney urged the court to consider the fact that her client was a first time offender and accepted responsibility for his actions.

Meanwhile, Jackie Lewis of Pennville was fined $1000 for a similar offence.

Lewis was arrested and charged at Lagoon, Portsmouth, while police were conducting a search at his home.

Forty-one grams of marijuana was reportedly recovered at various parts of his house.

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35 Comments

  1. Mr. Winstunner
    May 24, 2012

    that should be tops he dat have the acres

  2. Trend
    May 23, 2012

    This is presecution! Invasion of people’s privacy.
    The island is plagued with Alcoholism. Make alcohol illegal if you are serious about caring for the people by getting rid of marijuana.

    They still cannot touch the big money cocain right under their noses. Nonsense now.

    • Trend
      May 23, 2012

      And I mean pERsecution, that’s stupid/ugly and has failed miserably for 40 years – a waste of time and tax payers’ money.

  3. well redz
    May 23, 2012

    they should be happy that man planting there ting , nuff police wouldn’t have job :idea: they lucky ,DRUG money that paying them :evil: real talk

  4. ratson
    May 23, 2012

    my padner they hold there wee boy :oops:

  5. gold tol tol
    May 23, 2012

    as hunter said men are caught with cocaine and the minimum fine is their sentence but is the weed smokers and planters that getting the hard end of the stick when top officials want their cocain to sell they have to punish the weed sellers and smokers eh its simple economics greater the demand higher the price but the hold holding the police though! i wonder why

  6. real ting dat
    May 23, 2012

    if u legalized weed it will not be worth so much money duhhh.think of d/a economy we need it and need it to remain illegal so the system can function. 8-O

  7. May 23, 2012

    Never any consistency with dominica fines, it has become comical, 332grams, basically a pound and he gets fined $2000, but merely days ago Only 1 plant gets a $3000 fine. So the old guy that has one plant in his yard so he can do his thing by himself, pays a g-note more than the guy carrying around a pound for resale. Dominica legal system is completely WACK,. just LEGALIZE and call it a day to all these nonsense fines. Maryjane is the “miracle plant” that has true MEDICINAL PROPERTIES. Might I remind everyone, god grew marijuana on this planet, was god wrong?

  8. May 23, 2012

    I am so saddened that most of you say that marijuana should be legalised. have you not seen the state of many young Dominican youths who look like they are constantly doped and give so many problems to their parents? The psychiatric ward must be filled by now with many of them losing their minds to drugs. They say there are no jobs and that planting marijuana brings income. It is a lie! there are so many things that one can do to make a living . The fact is domimican men are very lazy and like a fast buck. I say instead of jail have them clean the roads and do some sort of community service.
    Shame on you who condone it.

    • Green
      May 24, 2012

      all of this is handed down hear say and irresponsible ASSumptions. Get your facts straight and stop blame all society and youth problems on marijuana.

  9. virgo
    May 23, 2012

    Marijuana should not be too much of a problem, i’ts the way some people use and abuse it, revelation 22 v2 in the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for healing of the nations.

  10. d unit
    May 23, 2012

    Just another victim of an unjustystem.a system that enables high level white-collar criminals to flourish while poor pple suck salt.I am a civil servant,i dont smoke but reality is reality.we have widespread unemployment,civil servant cannot survive on the meagre pittance they are paid…people have a right to survive.

  11. Afro-Muslim Diaspora
    May 23, 2012

    Once again I am challenging D.N.O to carry out a poll regarding the legalization of marijuana in Dominica. Admin are you guys scared of the results? It’s not a scientific poll by the way! :lol:

    Secondly, the Dominican society is an evil and upside down one. The crux of the evil lies mainly with those in “high” places. These people are robbing the poor by charging them exorbitant fees for the soliciting of marijuana which has a 0% mortality rate yet fail to adequately curb or eradicate the evils of alcohol, crack and cocaine which permeates and destroy many youths in our society.

    I am a non marijuana smoker by the way but based on scientific evidence and reason there is no way these post colonial laws are just!

    In conclusion I am a strong advocate for the following: 1. Review of the laws on marijuana. 2. The use of marijuana as medicine to treat eating disorders, glaucoma and anxiety disorders. 3. The knowledge of making ropes, clothing and other means of secondary production for exports to increase our revenue and to grant employment to our youth. 4. The complete boycott and eradication of cigarettes and alcohol 5. Very tough punishment for those found guilty by forensic and confessional evidence of trafficking cocaine and crack as these drugs seriously destroy lives! 6. Investment in a rehabilitation unit to target people particularly on crack so that they can be once again productive citizens of our country.

    • May 23, 2012

      @ Afro-Muslim Diaspora: Are you out of your mind? Are you Marijuana exporter? Because, Yes, Dominica is evil and upside down, but this is largely due to the fact that people like you are so ignorant to the dangers of Marijuana. It’s not just that everyone who smokes Marijuana is somewhat psychotic or schizoid (believe me, I saw my own brother try to kill me when he was smoking Marijuana) but it is the fact that so many murders are committed by those who seek to control the distribution and supply of Marijuana. In Mexico there are 1000’s of people dying for this reason. In T&T over 1000 a year die for this reason and so you would have Dominica join this illustrious league? Marijuana smokers are stupefied and lazy and bring nothing positive to society and to the contrary are the largest contributors of disquiet and social unrest as they want to smoke Marijuana and play load music all day and night, then wonder why they don’t have a job and then end up having to steal or peddle drugs in order to make ends meet. I feel sorry for the black man because he has been fooled by the evil that is Marijuana, which seeks not to glorigy but destroy him!!! MORE FOOL YOU!

      • The Dominican.
        May 23, 2012

        Ithink Tina before you lay your attack on people with genuine concern you should research your facts first, while i can see you are genuine in your approach your facts just not there and so your point is invalis.

      • Afro-Muslim Diaspora
        May 23, 2012

        I’m sure if I have to cross-examine your brother he must have mixed the marijuana with cigarettes or something, or he may have been consuming alcohol.

        Secondly, why does California and the Canadian government allow for people to use marijuana as a medicine? I think as a woman you have been fooled by the people who use bias research to further their political gains – those who continue to create cigarettes and alcohol which continue to destroy millions of lives.

        I am not advocating the smoking of marijuana for idleness, it is a medicinal plant and proper prescription should be given for the usage of the herb.

        Thus Tina kindly read carefully what I am advocating before you attack logic and reasoning. Simply because your brother tried to “kill” you doesn’t mean that marijuana as a medicine is detrimental to the entire society.

    • Erix
      May 23, 2012

      @Tuna..I mean Tina, Afro-M D is right. I’m sorry to hear of your bro’s threat but your brother must have mixed something in the marijuana he smoked. That’s what many do today. Even today’s casual smokers mix high-leaf(in D/a) or sigar(in USA), tobacco in Britain or crack/cocaine known as spranger. Unlike the 70’s/80’s when people smoked marijuana by itself which made them feel nice, calm and mellow, never mind the medicinal value Afro-M D mentioned, that’s a given.

      So you see Tina, marijuana get’s a bad rap, like cocacola and aspirin some mix with meth. Doesn’t mean cocacola nor aspirin is that bad but they get a bad rap by those who mix them with meth producing a nasty high/brain damage.

      By the way, schitzo nor paro are not associated with marijuana at all. Google it, that’s what doctors do.

      • May 25, 2012

        Yes it is in human nature to try to be pitiful towards someone sentenced to jail. The fact is Dominicans are very ignorant and cannot take responsibilities for their own actions. If the law of the country is that someone caught with something illegal is arrested and sentenced, so be it. As for most of you saying that marijuana is used as a medecin, which is true , it is not what they plant in Dominica. There are different types of what we call “Indian hemp”. which is used as a medecin. So stop making excuses for people and start researching about the plant. the black man is doomed and instead of trying to make a difference he seems to bring himself down. The government should use people like him to clean the streets and do community service instead of sending them to jail where they use taxpayers money to take care of jailbirds.

      • Afro-Muslim Diaspora
        May 25, 2012

        @ Tina: No one is feeling sorry for the idea someone is arrested or imprisoned. Most of the people here are informed about the injustices that is prevalent in our society. What is this thing about black man bringing himself down? You are the one uplifting the whites for being able to transport tobacco and alcohol which are killers yet fail to understand marijuana as a medical plant.

  12. bougla
    May 23, 2012

    I wonder who smoked that weed after it was seized 8-O

  13. JUSTICE
    May 23, 2012

    When was the last Cocaine/Crack Bust?
    Leave the ganja man, what else is there to do in DA?

  14. anonymous2
    May 22, 2012

    Yep, add to the coffers of the govt. and the globalists that want this stuff illegal while they raise it in Afganistan and slam any little people that raise, sell or smoke it.

  15. makaveli
    May 22, 2012

    instead of creating employment they got war on drugs so the police bother me
    one day i will do that crime i have to do

  16. Nassief
    May 22, 2012

    Either u sell marijuana or go red clinic, at least some people have dignity! :wink:

  17. May 22, 2012

    all who advocating for the ligalization of the herb,forget that, too much money to make by the lawers and policy makers,
    an illigal(by man)substance is making legal monies for these people, or they are enriching themselves with illigal money.either/ether,
    but jah know when he ready he will stop them ,with his mystic vibes,
    they can do as much as they like, they can never do as long as they like.

  18. i die nah
    May 22, 2012

    low paying jobs, people with kids get paid as low as 4oo a mth, no jobs, everything expensive, the poor ppl are gettin ripped off, the rich gettin richer and the people in high places are gettin most of their money from corruption and rippin off the poor. alas alas

    if i tell u that while writing this tears are in my eyes u will say i lie

  19. reform
    May 22, 2012

    what is this country coming to? poor people getting fined for selling ganja and the rich people get richer selling alcohol and tobacco.

    the poor ppl have to go commit bigger crimes to pay up what they owe so they wont go to jail.

    i am not saying marijuana on a large scale is good. what i am saying is that, more jobs need to be created, and not just that but jobs with a pay that can actually pay bills at the end of the month.

    and if they banning one they should ban all.
    if someone selling cocaine is caught, i care less, send them to jail, whatever, but weed man, come on,,,,,,, its equivalent is on the shelf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  20. vanilla
    May 22, 2012

    Why are they harassing the marijuana farmers like that nah, oh shait man go and harass the big boys that doing all the cocaine that sending all our young men mad.

  21. Country
    May 22, 2012

    It’s time for a revolution! This is ludicrous! If they would fine the rapist’s and Murderer’s as much now they would make a money!

  22. Anonymous
    May 22, 2012

    well we have a problemof unemployment people,and is that dat giveing them de money………..

  23. Anonymous
    May 22, 2012

    :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

  24. green
    May 22, 2012

    R the Police getting a search warrant to go into these people homes. Why are they being fine so sure Don’t the court realize that the people are going to sell more weed to pay the court.
    Maybe they should go to jail for a few months they maybe better off….

  25. no idiot
    May 22, 2012

    How come they searching all the time and only finding marijuana? Not coke,not crack? Something is definitely wrong, very wrong!

  26. .....
    May 22, 2012

    if allu ever legalize marijuana the country finsih..see how much money d government making from t..lol…everywhere i turn is marijuana talk and thousand of dollars mentioning..whoosh

  27. A Voice
    May 22, 2012

    I tell you man, it does not matter on what side of the argument you are, the court seems to be the entity making the most money on the cultivation of ganja in Dominica.

    So ganja is a real source of revenue for the state, whether you want to admit it or not. Just count the amount of thousands of dollars that the court has imposed just for this month alone.

    That is why these guys will maintain the status quo because is the court and the lawyers that making a killing, and mind you that is making a killing legally too you know.

    Ironic isn’t it?

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