admitted committing three drug offences.

Magistrate Edward King told Albert McDonald Rogers he "must be a chemist'' after Rogers admitted he had both heroin and cannabis on Friday, November 13 last year and cocaine on Saturday, February 13.

Rogers, 49, of the Salvation Army shelter on Parson's Road, Pembroke, was sentenced on Tuesday to two consecutive 28-day suspended prison sentences and one concurrent 28-day suspended sentence.

Mr. King suspended the sentences for two years, telling Rogers that if he were to "get the temptation'' and be caught, he would face 56 days in prison to start.

"Take care of yourself,'' Mr. King told Rogers after he said he could leave.

"I'm putting you in a prison without bars with this sentence.'' Crown counsel Leighton Rochester had told the court that Rogers was approached by Police while standing in the Crown and Anchor pool hall on Court Street shortly before midnight on November 13.

Officers noted he was "nervous and fidgety'' and they noticed he was attempting to keep his left hand concealed behind his body.

Asked about his behaviour, Rogers told Police: "I "ain't got nothing.'' But he dropped a brown object to the floor.

The paper was found by the Government analyst to contain 0.03 grammes of 20 percent pure diamorphine and 0.38 grammes of cannabis inside separate wrappers.

Mr. Rochester said when Rogers was charged in Hamilton Police Station on February 11, he told Police: "It was not mine. None of it.'' Two days later, at 10.20 p.m. Police entered another known drug and gambling den, next door to the Spinning Wheel on Court Street.

Mr. Rochester said officers' attention was drawn to Rogers who had his right hand clenched in a fist.

Rogers dropped a Rizla cigarette paper, containing small rock-like substances moments later as Police approached him.

Again he told Police: "That's not mine. I don't know what you're talking about.'' Mr. Rochester told Mr. King the Government analyst later analysed the contents of the cigarette and found it to be 0.04 grammes of 88 percent pure cocaine.

In his defence Rogers told Mr. King he is an addict and survives by doing "odds and ends'' jobs.

"I would like another chance and be able to get along with my life,'' Rogers said. "I'm sorry for what happened. That's why I go to Addiction Services and FOCUS. I don't want to deal with drugs again.''