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Taxi man found with marijuana under his seat charged for drug trafficking

Posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2023. 3:59 pm CST.

By Breaking Belize News Staff: A Belize City taxi driver was fined this week after being charged with drug trafficking but pleading down to a lesser offense.

Forty-six-year-old Robert Henry Young appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court on Monday, charged with a single count of possession of controlled drugs with the intent to supply to another with respect to 81 grams of marijuana found in his taxi under a seat during a police search.

Young pleaded not guilty to the lesser charge of possession simplitica, telling the court that the marijuana was for his own personal use as opposed to being intended to distribute to anyone else.

The court accepted his plea for the lesser charge and he was fined $600 plus $5 cost of court which he must pay by May 31 or he will spend six months in prison for default. Before he could leave, Young also had to pay $180 towards an old fine that he had not been paying.

Police say that they found the marijuana during a search conducted on Saturday, February 18.

 

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