Police awoke a man apparently sleeping on his motorbike and found he had cannabis and cocaine on him, Magistrates' Court heard yesterday.

Tamiko Wainwright, 29, of Union Street, Pembroke, who pleaded guilty to possessing freebase cocaine and cannabis resin, received a $500 fine and a suspended prison sentence.

Crown counsel Shakira Dill told Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo that at 2.30 a.m. on August 18 of this year, Wainwright was found at the junction of Court and Elliott Street appearing to be asleep on a motorbike.

After trying to wake him up for a few moments, Police officers noticed a crunched up packet of cigarettes in his right hand. When the defendant awoke, the tried the hide the package behind his back, Ms Dill said.

The officers took the package from him and found three cream rocks and three black rocks in tin foil. The defendant also had $1,075 in his pants pocket which he claimed was an inheritance from his deceased grandmother.

The cream rocks were found to be 1.75 grams of freebase cocaine and the black rocks were 3.05 grams of cannabis resin.

Trott was fined $300 for the cocaine and $200 for the cannabis. Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo sentenced him to six months in prison for the cocaine and four months for the cannabis, but suspended the sentences for 12 months, meaning that if he is caught with narcotics within the next year he will go to prison.