Trio guilty of drugs charges
A trio of drug dealers was found unanimously guilty by a Supreme Court jury for possession of $18,000 worth of heroin and cocaine with intent to supply.
Robert Damon Green, 28, Sydney O'Neil Gibbons, 43, and Ronald O'Neal Beach, 33, stood trial for possession of the controlled drugs cocaine and heroine with the intent to supply and possession of cocaine on June 1.
Beach was solely charged with possession of heroin with the intent to supply. They denied the charges.
During the two-and-a-half week long trial, the jury heard the men operated out of a guest house room at Aunt Nea's Inn,St. George's which was raided by Police at 7 a.m. on June 1.
The case for the prosecution, as previously set out by Crown Prosecutor Robert Welling, is that Police entered the room to find Gibbons on the bed, Beach on the couch and Green naked in the bathroom trying to escape from a small window.
In the room, officers found items including two wooden stirring sticks and a pair of scissors with crack cocaine residue on them, plastic sandwich bags with the corners cut off and a Rizla packet. In the bathroom was a pink packet of what appeared to be Skittles and two homemade cigarettes containing crack.
The jury had heard from Mr. Welling that during the arrest, Green, of DeSilva Close, Pembroke, began to struggle with the officers after they assisted in clothing him, taking the pink packet of Skittles and shoving them in his pants.
When the officers were taking them out of the room, Green began to move around and the packet and $4,000 in cash fell out of his pants, it is alleged. Heroin and crack cocaine worth $18,000 were found in the packet of Skittles.
When Beach, of Cottage Hill Road, Hamilton Parish, was taken to South Side Police Station, $1,500 of heroin was found in the tongue of one of his shoes.
Mr. Welling told the court although nothing was found on Gibbons of Harlem Heights, Hamilton Parish, it didn't mean he was not a part of the team.
Gibbons gave evidence while Green and Beach exercised their right to silence. In his evidence, Green explained they rented the room to entertain women because he couldn't at his home because he lives with his parents.
He claimed he had no knowledge of the drugs in the room before that night and admitted to being a heroin user of 20 years.
Rick Woolridge, lawyer for Beach and Gibbons, asked for Social Inquiry and BARC reports to be done on his clients while Llewellyn Peniston's client, Green, wanted to be sentenced immediately.
Puisne Judge Carlise Greaves remanded the men in custody until January.
