drug dealers have been warned they should expect no mercy from the courts when they supply drugs to youths and use the income to buy alcohol.
Magistrate Yogesh Prasad gave the warning while sentencing Marika Magita, a municipal council worker, to one year in prison for being in possession of marijuana and $186 identified as proceeds of crime.
Court records showed that during a police patrol on October 3, officers observed the accused and a group of youths acting suspiciously at Lami’s Tikaram Park.
The officers searched them and found nine sachets of marijuana and $186.50 in cash.
The court classified Magita as a drug pusher.
“Selling drugs to youths for beer is an abhorrent act that warrants an immediate custodial sentence,” Mr Prasad said on Wednesday during sentencing.
For his second count, a sentence of three months is concurrent with the one-year jail term.
