Couple charged for nineteen pounds of cannabis

In the west, police made a sizeable drug bust in Benque Viejo on Thursday. Cops on mobile patrol between miles seventy and seventy-one became suspicious of a Toyota Tercel Station Wagon heading towards San Ignacio and set chase. When they caught up with the vehicle, occupied by thirty-four year old Roland Garcia and his common-law-wife thirty-four year old Elizabeth Myers of Unitedville, the cops proceeded with a search. In the back seat they found a sack containing nineteen pounds of cannabis. The couple was jointly charged with Drug Trafficking and was arraigned at the Benque Magistrates’ Court. Garcia pleaded guilty, was fined fifteen thousand dollars plus another five dollars for court costs and was sentenced to three years behind bars. Myers, on the other, pleaded not guilty and was offered and met bail. The car was confiscated by the court and handed over to the government.