Tourist fined for weed possession

Posted: Wednesday, January 7, 2015. 8:54 pm CST.

Mario Brown

Wednesday, January 7, 2015. AARON HUMES Reporting: Honduran national and American resident 42 year old Mario Silva Brown was fined $250 for possession of 0.9 grams of cannabis in the court of Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer.

Brown, a bathroom and kitchen designer residing in the U.S. state of Minnesota, paid immediately on order of the court.

On Monday, January 5, police conducted a stop-and-search operation in the Boca del Rio area of San Pedro Town, Ambergris Caye where Brown was on vacation.

Brown was searched and the cannabis recovered from his grey knapsack.

(BMG)

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