A 35-year-old former Secondary School teacher who was found in possession of marijuana last Monday has been fined $300 and sentenced 30 days imprisonment by the Suva Magistrates Court.
David Samuela Nagata of Ba who was teaching in Kadavu kept a red ice- cream container in his room which contained some dried leaves, a silver tin container and other smoking apparatus.
The school principle suspected that Nagata is taking drugs and he informed the police and Nagata was arrested.
Nagata pleaded guilty to one count of possession of illicit drugs.
