ZenLunatic
04-09-2006, 04:39 PM
Mervyn Dykes
Manawatu Standard
Friday 07 Apr 2006
Trying to smuggle cannabis oil into Arohata Prison in Porirua has earned
a Palmerston North man a jail term of his own.
Rodney Russell, 37, put a small amount of the drug wrapped in tinfoil
between two photographs included with a letter to a former partner.
The drug was detected and he later pleaded guilty in Palmerston North
District Court to a charge of possessing cannabis oil for supply.
When he appeared for sentencing yesterday, he was jailed for six months.
Judge Alistair Garland said that while the amount of drug involved was
small, an important part of the sentence was the need to deter attempts
to get drugs into prisons. He refused Russell permission to apply for
home detention, saying it would undermine the need for a deterrent penalty.
Manawatu Standard
Friday 07 Apr 2006
Trying to smuggle cannabis oil into Arohata Prison in Porirua has earned
a Palmerston North man a jail term of his own.
Rodney Russell, 37, put a small amount of the drug wrapped in tinfoil
between two photographs included with a letter to a former partner.
The drug was detected and he later pleaded guilty in Palmerston North
District Court to a charge of possessing cannabis oil for supply.
When he appeared for sentencing yesterday, he was jailed for six months.
Judge Alistair Garland said that while the amount of drug involved was
small, an important part of the sentence was the need to deter attempts
to get drugs into prisons. He refused Russell permission to apply for
home detention, saying it would undermine the need for a deterrent penalty.