A boat builder was yesterday jailed for eight and a half years and fined €23,000 after the police found 27 blocks of cannabis resin in a field in Marsascala.
Angelo Fenech, 39, from Żejtun but living in Marsascala, was spotted by the police acting suspiciously on January 16, 2008 in a field in Ta’ Rumi Street in the limits of his hometown. Officers found a bucket and a sack containing 16 blocks of cannabis resin.
They later found another 11 blocks wrapped in plastic hidden in the same field.
Mr Fenech admitted to drug trafficking and aggravated possession.
Lawyers Giannella de Marco and Michael Sciriha appeared for Mr Fenech.