Family of Three Charged with Drug Offences

A family of three was dragged to court late Tuesday on a drug charge after police found seventy-seven grams of marijuana inside their refrigerator on Myrtle Waight Crescent in Ladyville. They are forty-one-year-old Herbie Eddison Moreira, a tour guide, his common-law wife, thirty-nine-year-old Sherice Andrea Foreman, and sixty-six-year-old Bernadette Williamson. The trio appeared in the Magistrate’s Court in the presence of their attorney, Godwin Haylock, where they were read a charge each of possession of a control drug with intent to supply seventy-seven grams of cannabis to another person or persons for the purpose of drug trafficking. Haylock asked for a sentencing indication as Moreira was contemplating pleading guilty. The magistrate indicated that she would impose a non-custodial sentence of a fine of no more than two thousand dollars but only if he has no previous conviction or has special reasons why a fine is appropriate in his case. His attorney Haylock submitted that while this is not Moreira’s first drug charge, his conviction for possession of a control drugs with intent to supply from 2013 is on appeal. Haylock also asked the court to take into consideration the small quantity of drugs. Moreira pleaded guilty and was fined fourteen hundred dollars. Moreira was facing the mandatory minimum fine of ten thousand dollars in default three years plus an additional prison time of three years if he had not pleaded guilty but was found guilty.