A Pembroke man was fined $3,500 in Magistrates? Court on Thursday after admitting to having cannabis in an increased penalty zone, using offensive words and resisting arrest.

Crown Counsel Paula Tyndale said at around 8.50 p.m. on Saturday, November 6, 2004, Police told Shane Minors, 26, of Field View Lane to stop where he was on Court Street.

However, Minors walked quickly away from them and climbed the steps of a nearby shop.

?Police had his sweater by the tail, and told him they had information he was carrying drugs,? Ms Tyndale said. ?The defendant reached into his pocket and pushed a Police Officer in his chest.?

After several bags of plant-like material were discovered, Minors said: ?F*** the Police.? The bags contained 6.15 grams of cannabis.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner fined Minors $1,000 for possession of cannabis, with an additional $1,000 for having it in an IPZ. He was fined $500 for using offensive words and $1,000 for violently resisting arrest.

Minors was ordered to pay the fines by April 29 or spend three months in prison.

Another Pembroke man, David Leverock, 27, of Cox?s Hill, was fined $300 for having three grams of cannabis in his possession.

He admitted to having the cannabis on Controversy Lane, Pembroke, on Tuesday, December 30, 2004.

When Police asked him where he got the cannabis he said he found it.