with a wooden pole to stop Police raiding his house.

Usecto Shalmah Durrant was accused of obstructing Police when they swooped on his home in Harlem Heights Road, Hamilton Parish, on September 29.

And officers armed with a warrant found 11.87 grams of cannabis, a scale and a pen knife when they started their search.

Officers also seized $4,760, which is now set to be returned to Durrant.

Prosecutor Sgt. Phil Taylor said the drugs had been thrown out of the bathroom window.

He also said the front door had been jammed by a four-foot long plank.

Senior Magistrate Will Francis fined the 28-year-old $900 for possession of cannabis, $200 for obstructing Police and $150 for possessing drug equipment.

Durrant admitted all the charges.

GOVERNOR'S PROPERTY DAMAGED -- CLAIM CTS Governor's property damaged -- claim A man accused of damaging the Governor's property and attacking a Police officer is to be tried in Magistrates' Court.

Keith McPherson pleaded not guilty to assaulting a Police officer, attempting to pervert the course of justice and damaging property belonging to the Governor yesterday.

But the 25-year-old pleaded guilty to a charge of holding an invalid driving licence.

Senior Magistrate Will Francis gave him $500 bail with a like surety and fixed the trial date and driving licence sentencing for June 2.

McPherson, of Spice Road, Southampton, was also given a four-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, after admitting stealing a $3,000 rental cycle from his former employers Wheels at the Pink Beach Club during a separate incident on August 2.

He also picked up $850 in fines for traffic tickets which had not been paid.

LICENCES TAKEN AWAY FOR DRINK-DRIVING CTS Licences taken away for drink-driving Two men were fined $600 each and taken off the road for 12 months after pleading guilty to driving while under the influence of alcohol.

Ari Stovell, 27, from Cut Road, St. George's, was stopped by Police near the Botanical Gardens while driving along South Road in Paget in the early hours of November 19 last year.

After admitting having "a couple'' of drinks Stovell was arrested and taken to Hamilton Police station where an alcoanalyser test showed that he had 136 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 milligrammes.

Stovell asked Magistrate Ed King if he would be allowed to keep a licence for some form of transport, claiming that he worked very early hours and was in the Regiment.

But Mr. King had no choice but to ban him from all vehicles.

"You are permitted to ride a horse, take a carriage or ride a bike but you are forbidden from driving any class of motorised vehicle -- that's what the law says,'' Mr. King said.

Bank of Bermuda worker Jose Osset received the same sentence after pleading guilty to being more than two-and-a-half times over the legal limit.

Osset, 25, from Stovell Bay Road, Pembroke, was stopped while riding a livery cycle on Front Street in the early hours of December 19.

He admitted having had "four or five drinks'' before being arrested and taken to Hamilton Police station where an alcoanalyser test showed that he had 204 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

Osset was also charged with riding an uninsured bike in December 1996. He pleaded not guilty to the offence and will be tried in April.