Farmer fails to name cocaine supplier
WESTERN BUREAU — St James farmer, Cecil Doeman, who was convicted on cocaine charges late last month, lost the opportunity to have his 21-month jail sentence reduced yesterday when he failed to name his supplier.
Ahead of the sentencing in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday, RM Paulette Williams told Doeman that if he assisted the police in identifying the person who had given him the drugs, the prison sentence would be reduced.
“I just know him as “Bigga”,” Doeman told the court.
“Most of them are,” the RM responded dryly, before handing down the sentence.
For possession of the drug, Doeman was fined $200,000 or six months. And for attempting to export it he was fined $250,000 or six months. The charge of dealing in the substance was dismissed.
After handing down the sentence, the RM then informed Doeman that if the fines are not paid he would be liable to serve an additional 12 months in prison, as the sentences would run consecutively.
“I don’t have the money Miss,” he told the RM.
“Well, you will have to do the time. Perhaps “Bigga” will come and help you,” the RM replied.
On January 28, Doeman, of Cambridge, was stopped at the Sangster International Airport in Montego while on his way to Miami.
He was later taken to the Cornwall Regional Hospital where over the next three days he excreted 105 cylindrical packages of cocaine weighing some two and a half pounds.