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Grand Bay resident Ijahman Baron and his girlfriend, Alisha Fontaine, appeared to have different opinions about the nature of an illegal drug found\u00a0in their home which turned out to be\u00a0marijuana.<\/p>\nGrand Bay resident Ijahman Baron and his girlfriend, Alisha Fontaine, appeared to have different opinions about the nature of an illegal drug found\u00a0in their home which turned out to be\u00a0marijuana.<\/p>\n
But in the end Baron, who pleaded guilty to drug charges, was slapped with a hefty fine of $24,000 to be paid by March 31, 2013 or he will spend 20 months in jail.<\/p>\n
According to court reports, the Police Drug Squad, armed with a search warrant, went to Baron’s home where they met his 19-year-old girlfriend. “Oh, they going down with us today,” she gasped when the police approached.<\/p>\n
When the lawmen entered the house they saw what appeared to be a large quantity of bush or weed hanging on a line in the house. “Weed that there,” Baron exclaimed.<\/p>\n
But his girlfriend contradicted him. “Bazalic that there,” she said.<\/p>\n
An examination of the substance revealed that it was indeed marijuana and a further search discovered more of it in various parts of the house. Baron and Fontaine were then arrested. Fontaine pleaded not guilty and was to have been bailed with her trial date set for April 8, 2013 at\u00a0Grand Bay.<\/p>\n
Baron\u00a0was fined $3,000.00 for possession of 4,179 grams of\u00a0cannabis and $21,000.00 for possession with intent to supply.<\/p>\n
In mitigation, Baron told Chief Magistrate Evelina Baptiste that he was a first time offender and sometimes did gardening.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t try to fool me … you have time to do rubbish, injuring yourself, the woman you are with and the community, taking and supplying drugs,\u201d a very annoyed Baptiste told Baron. \u201cYou are unbelievable …. you spent all your time growing marijuana, you should not be in court, you should be working to better yourself, instead, you plying the drugs trade with a 19-year-old.”<\/p>\n
In another matter, 48 year-old Hendricks Julius Wade of Morne Prosper could not get someone to bail him after he pleaded not guilty to a charge of threats and battery on his wife.<\/p>\n
Another man 29 year Rennick\u00a0 Bastien of Newtown also pleaded not guilty to the charge of stealing at ACS 7-11 Mini Mart. He and Wade are now inmates at the State prison on remand pending the availability of a proper surety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grand Bay resident Ijahman Baron and his girlfriend, Alisha Fontaine, appeared to have different opinions about the nature of an illegal drug found\u00a0in their home which turned out to be\u00a0marijuana. But in the end Baron, who pleaded guilty to drug…","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-court-law"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n