A Ce­dros man was jailed for 18 months with hard labour on Mon­day for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na. Point Fortin Mag­is­trate In­drani Ce­de­no al­so sen­tenced Pe­ter Mc In­tosh to two months in jail with hard labour for re­sist­ing ar­rest. He plead­ed guilty to both charges. Not­ing that Mc In­tosh had a pre­vi­ous con­vic­tion for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na, Ce­de­no asked: "You made a jail term for mar­i­jua­na and now you're here again?" Mc In­tosh replied: "Well ma'am, I does smoke."

Pros­e­cu­tor Ag In­sp Johna­ton Gun­ness told the court on Oc­to­ber 14 PC Khaleed was on mo­bile pa­trol in Ce­dros when he saw the de­fen­dant walk­ing along Pierre Road. He said Mc In­tosh looked in the di­rec­tion of the po­lice ve­hi­cle and put his right hand in his pock­et. Khaleed stopped Mc In­tosh and searched him and found 13 pack­ets of mar­i­jua­na in his pos­ses­sion. When Mc In­tosh was be­ing ar­rest­ed, he strug­gled with the po­lice of­fi­cers. Mc In­tosh claimed the of­fi­cers were caus­ing him to be­come in­de­cent­ly ex­posed. He said they want­ed him to pull down his pants, threw him to the ground and be­gan beat­ing him while he was al­most naked.