Bermuda ex-policeman jailed for importing ganja
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC) — A former policeman who said financial pressures had "backed him into a corner" has been jailed for four years after he was caught trying to smuggle more than US$200,000 worth of cannabis into Bermuda from Canada.
Owen Simons, a 43-year-old Bermudian, hid the drugs inside 35 small black packages that were folded into two new air beds before boarding a flight from Toronto to Bermuda in July last year, the Supreme Court was told.
Simons, who was living in Canada at the time, was stopped at Bermuda's L F Wade International Airport as he picked up his luggage.
As customs officers searched his bags and found the packages wrapped in carbon paper they asked Simons what they contained, to which he replied: "Weed."
He was detained and later pleaded guilty to importing a controlled drug into Bermuda.
The drugs were examined and found to have an...
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