City man gets one year for weed joint

A Belize City man has been sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to drug charges. This afternoon, Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie charged twenty-nine year old Sydney Bradley for possession of point eight grams of cannabis, the equivalent of about one joint, and sentenced him to one year imprisonment. Bradley was obviously in shock when he received the prison time instead of a mere fine. On Friday, Bradley was riding his bicycle on Caesar Ridge Road when a police vehicle pulled up to him and stopped him. Instinctively, Bradley threw away the weed, but the police retrieved it and arrested him.