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Vasquez Acquitted of Kilos Of Hydro
posted (August 29, 2014)
32 year-old Clarissa Vasquez, who was facing drug trafficking charges for over 50 pounds of high-grade marijuana, is at home free tonight after she was acquitted in Magistrate's Court today.

As we reported, officers from the Gang Suppression Unit were on mobile patrol on West Collet Canal on February 17, 2014. They spotted 40 year-old Raynard Grinage in a 4-door Taurus car. They searched him and the vehicle, but they didn't find anything incriminating. The officers did find a bunch of keys, and they decided to follow up. They searched the house on Bachelor Avenue, to which the keys belong, and they ended up finding 24.4 kilos - or 53 pounds - of "hydro" type weed.

Grinage was charged with drug trafficking because of the seizure. His girlfriend, Clarissa Vasquez, was picked up and arrested later for the same charge because she was the tenant who was renting the property.

At the arraignment, Grinage pleaded guilty to the charge, and he was sentenced to 3 years in prison, plus a fine of $10,000. Vasquez pleaded not guilty, and she was tried for the charge. After the Prosecution closed their case, her attorney, Ellis Arnold, made a no-case submission on the grounds that she wasn't present at the time of the search, and that there is no evidence to connect her to the drugs. Magistrate Herbert Panton agreed with his submissions and acquitted her of the charge today.

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