A Devonshire man was fined $2,500 for bringing drugs into an increased penalty zone.Shawn Smith, 34, admitted having 1.3 grams of cannabis in his pockets when searched by police.Crown counsel Kirsty-Ann Kiellor told Magistrates’ Court that at 4.50pm on September 30, Smith was stopped on Court Street, near the Elliott Street junction.Twists containing plant-like material were found in his pockets, and Smith was arrested and taken to Hamilton Police Station.The substance was identified as cannabis, and since Smith had been stopped within 300 metres of Dellwood Middle School, Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner fined him $1,500 on top of the $1,000 fine for possession of cannabis.