… While Trial Farm villager caught with contraband smokes

Meanwhile officers manning the Sand Hill checkpoint had a find of their own as police say inside forty-three year old Edmundo Burke’s vehicle they found twenty-five cartons of uncustomed cigarettes. The DJ brand smokes, valued at twelve thousand five hundred dollars, were immediately seized and Burke was arrested. The accused appeared in Magistrate Court this morning where he pled guilty to the charge. The penalty is a fine of three times the value of the goods which translated to thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars for Burke or two years behind bars. He was ordered to pay two thousand dollars right away but because he couldn’t come up the cash, the Trial Farm villager has been remanded to prison.