Woman gets five years for drug possession

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SIBU: A 35-year-old woman was yesterday ordered by the Sessions Court to be jailed for five years after she pleaded guilty to drug possession.

SENTENCED: Chuo being escorted from court after the judgement.

Chuo Mee Lee was sentenced to five years’ jail for a charge under Section 6 of the 1952 Dangerous Drug Act (DDA), which is punishable under Section 39A2 of the same act.

The Section provides for a minimum jail term of five years or a life sentence.

The court also sentenced Chuo to six months’ jail for a charge under Section 12(2) of the same act.

The two sentences are to run concurrently.

The court was told that around 10.45am on April 23 last year, a police team led by Inspector Lee Beng Oui raided a house in Tun Abang Haji Openg Road and
found white powder in a packet believed to be Ketamine.

When Lee asked Chuo whether she kept something illegal in the room, she took a yellow jar from a wardrobe and gave it to him.

The jar contained 20 transparent packets filled with compressed dry foliage that weighed 389.65gm.

A chemist’s report confirmed that the contents of the jar were 325.16gm of cannabis while the white powder in the packet was 6.10gm Ketamine.