Weed farmers busted in Corozal

Police continue to make times tough for the nation’s weed smokers. A raid in the Corozal District on Wednesday morning resulted in the destruction of a plantation with three thousand mature marijuana plants averaging six feet tall. Forty-four year old Marcelino Gilharry and fifty-year old Cecilio Villanueva of San Antonio Village were found on the property and pleaded guilty in Magistrate’s Court to the charge of cultivation of cannabis. They were fined ten thousand dollars each and if the amount is not paid by October thirty-first, they will serve three years in prison. The illegal farm was located eight miles northeast of Corozal Town.