Nineteen-year-old remanded in custody
A St Mark's teenager has been remanded in custody after admitting a parcel containing £36,000 worth of cannabis was his.
Nineteen-year-old Jamie Gelling of Braaid Road appeared before High Bailiff Jayne Hughes at Douglas courthouse.
He admitted producing cannabis bush to the Isle of Man on 1 July and 12 August, as well as being unlawfully concerned in supplying the class B drug.
Prosecution advocate Rebecca Cubbon told the hearing police were called to the sorting office in Braddan on 12 August after postal workers spotted a suspicious parcel being sent to Waterloo Road in Ramsey.
Police raided the address after finding 1.8 kilos of cannabis inside the package – and the man they arrested there told them he was being paid in cash and drugs to have it delivered to him.
However, he told them Gelling had arranged for the shipment, with a street value of £36,728, to be sent to the Island and officers arrested him at his home in St Mark's.
Mrs Hughes noted Gelling had a previous conviction for an almost identical offence in 2018, and said her sentencing powers were insufficient to deal with him.
She remanded him in custody and he'll be sentenced at a Court of General Gaol Delivery on 18 September.
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