yesterday after pleading guilty to possessing drug equipment and obstructing Police officers.

Prosecuting, Insp. Peter Duffy, told the court that on March 5, Robert W.

Thomas of Two Way Lane was seen by Police sitting on a wall on Union Street.

"They noticed that Thomas looked suspicious. After approaching him for a search, they told him to keep his hands out of his pockets,'' said Insp.

Duffy. But Thomas removed a glass pipe from his pocket and threw it over the wall.

Officers retrieved the broken pipe in which remnants of cocaine in free base form were later found, said Insp. Duffy.

On Thursday, April 23, Thomas was seen by Police on Middle Town Road in Pembroke. Officers stopped him because they noticed that he was acting "very nervously.'' Thomas was seen to put his hand into his top left hand pocket and drop some matches, a black ball of wire and a pair of scissors onto the ground. When questioned, he told officers that he had borrowed the scissors from a friend.

Police arrested Thomas for obstruction and after tests, remnants of cocaine were found on the items.

Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis fined Thomas a total of $400 for obstruction, $200 for possessing drug equipment, $100 for possessing steel wool and $100 for possessing the scissors.