totaling $2,000 or spend 200 days in prison for possessing and importing cannabis.

New Jersey resident Aaron Matthew Schulman pleaded guilty to the charges in Magistrates' Court hours before he was due to leave the Island.

He apologised profusely for bringing more than 22 grams of cannabis with drug equipment for his own use.

Sgt. Wilbert McLean, prosecuting, said Customs officers found a plastic bag containing plant material in Schulman's golf bag when he arrived at the Civil Air Terminal on May 8.

Three home-made cigarettes, a mirror and razor blades with cannabis residue were also found in Schulman's luggage.

Sgt. McLean said Schulman admitted that the cigarettes were his, but denied owning the other items.

In court yesterday, the married father apologised "for the embarrassment caused to myself and your country.

"I'm well aware that what I've done is wrong.'' "I gather you've heard by now we take a very serious view about this,'' Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis said. "And the fines, although you are an American, will nonetheless have to be quite stiff.'' Mr. Francis fined Schulman $1,000 on each of the two counts.

POT DEALER JAILED CTS Pot dealer jailed A Pembroke man who stashed $3,000 worth of cannabis in the home he shares with his 67-year-old mother was yesterday jailed for six months.

On January 29, narcotics squad officers raided the Footbridge Lane home of Alexis Jennings, 30, after a tip-off, prosecutor Miss Sharon Kenny told Magistrates' Court. The raid netted more than 60 grams of cannabis, plus pay-type envelopes and Rizzla papers.

Jennings, unemployed, admitted possessing the drug with intent to supply and possessing the cannabis equipment. He was jailed for six months, with a two-month sentence for having the equipment to run concurrently.

Mr Archie Warner, defending, said Jennings supported his mother, and the circumstances of the case flowed from difficult economic times he was having.

OBSTRUCTED POLICE CTS Obstructed police Police struggling to arrest a drug suspect on Court Street were pelted with bottles from a crowd of protesters, one of whom tried to free the man being arrested.

Walter Otis Bell, 37, grabbed the suspect's arm and began pulling it from an officer's grasp, Magistrates' Court heard yesterday. Despite a warning he continued to prevent the man being handcuffed, shouting, "Let him go, go easy on him,'' prosecutor Sgt. Wilbert McLean said.

Bell, of Green Acres Road, Devonshire, admitted obstructing Insp. Edward Gibbons in the course of his duty on May 5, while on conditional discharge for a similar offence in March. He was fined $150, plus $100 for the earlier offence.

CASH THEFT CTS Cash theft Thirty-five-year-old Cornell Trott, of no fixed abode, was fined $120 for stealing cash he said had been given to him by a friend to buy a drink.

Sgt. Wilbert McLean, prosecuting, told Magistrates Court yesterday that at 4.30 a.m. on Monday, Mr. John Warren stopped Police on Court Street saying Trott had snatched $18 from him and only returned six dollars.

Trott admitted the offence but said the amount was only eight dollars. "It was for some beverage for him but he changed his mind. I didn't hear him but by then he'd told the Police.''