Crown makes submission for ‘drug money’ to be confiscated
Article by May 5, 2021
The Crown on Tuesday made a case for almost $10,000 in marijuana sales to be confiscated as a case against a St. James man continued before the High Court..
Jabari Jaleel Kirton returned to court after entering a guilty plea on April 22 to charges of firearm and ammunition possession and having a trafficable quantity of cannabis – 1.24 kilogrammes – and engaging in money laundering with the sums of $9,047 and US$90 ($180) found on him.
Kirton is represented by Queen’s Counsel Andrew Pilgrim while Acting Senior Crown Counsel Rudolph Burnett represents the Crown.
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The prosecution wants the money Jabari Jaleel Kirton admitted he had made from selling drugs, confiscated.
Senior Crown Counsel Rudolph Burnett made the application yesterday when Kirton reappeared in the No. 2 Supreme Court.
Kirton, of Midsummer Drive, Husbands, St James, had admitted having a .380-auto calibre firearm and five rounds of .380-auto calibre ammunition on May 24, 2019.
He also confessed to having 1.24 kilogrammes of cannabis and a traffickable quantity of the drug on the same date.
(HLE)