Magistrate releases drug lord under suspicious circumstances

Plumtree residents are not happy with the conduct of magistrate Lungile Ncube who ordered a Drug Lord Sam Junior Mhako to perform community service at Plumtree court.

The 36-year-old drug Lord was convicted on two counts of possessing drugs.

The regional magistrate Ncube ordered Mhako to perform community service at Plumtree magistrates courts.

Mhako is a former police officer and is known for supplying schoolchildren with all sorts of drugs.

Residents pulled resources together to assist the police in arresting him.

After his arrest, he bragged that he would not go to jail as he was connected. True to his word, he received a lenient sentence.

Mhako is a person with previous convictions of dealing drugs, but the court did not take that into consideration

On the first record, he was sentenced to 12 months wholly suspended on the condition of 420 hrs of community service at Plumtree court

The second record he was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with 6 months suspended.

The remaining 6 months are suspended on condition of 210 hrs of community service at Plumtree court.

Police officers and other stakeholders were not pleased with the magistrate's sentence.