By Staff Reporter
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 school children with all sorts of drugs.
Residents pulled resources together to assist the police to arrest him.
After his arrest he bragged that he will not go to jail as he was connected, true to his word,he got a lenient sentence.
Mhako is a person with previous convictions of dealing in drugs, but the court did not take that into consideration.
On the first record he was sentenced to 12 months wholly suspended on condition of 420 hrs of community service at Plumtree court
The second record he was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with 6months suspended.
The remaining 6months is suspended on condition of 210 hrs of community service at Plumtree court.
Police officers and other stakeholders were not pleased with the sentence that was handed by the magistrate.