CAPE MOUNT COUNTY, LIBERIA-The 5th Judicial Circuit Court Resident Judge, Ousman Feika, has sentenced defendant, Abass Sanor, to forty years in jail, at the Robertsport Prison Center, in Grand Cape Mount County.
Convict Abass received the sentence after he was declared guilty of having thirty-one kilograms of Kush, valued at over 100 million Liberian dollars.
Abass Sarnor, age 42, was handed Judge Feika’s maximum jailed sentence for two separate offenses consistent with the 2023 Drug Law. With that sentence, he will complete his term at age 82.
Abass Sanor was taken in on the charge of unlicensed possession of controlled drugs; with a maximum imprisonment is twenty years for each offense as provided by law.
However, Defence Lawyer, Cllr. Boima Passewe took an exception to Judge Feika‘s ruling and announced an appeal to the Supreme Court, with the intent of overturning the Court’s judgment as provided by Chapter 24, Section 24.1 and 2 of the Criminal Procedure Law.
Before the ruling, defendant Abass Sarnor was arrested in 2024 by law enforcement officers in Grand Cape Mount County, while attempting to transit to Liberia from neighboring Sierra Leone to Liberia, with the Kush substance, that was concealed at the back of the minibus.