fined $600 this week by a magistrate for having cannabis.

Daniel Ian Wilks pleaded guilty to possessing 1.47 grammes of cannabis after a Police patrol stopped him on an unrelated matter on April 16.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner heard that Wilks was stopped at 3.25 a.m.

on Bermudiana Road and appeared "very nervous and fidgety'' to the officers.

Crown counsel Graveney Bannister said Wilks dropped his head and lowered his eyes and said "no'' when he was told he would be searched under the Misuse of Drugs Act and asked if he had any drugs.

Wilks, 18, of Slip Lane, and with one previous conviction for drug possession, dropped his eyes in the direction of a plastic twist directly below where he was sitting on his cycle.

As they picked up the twist, he begged Police "can't you make it disappear'' and "you haven't caught me with it''.

The Bermuda College Food and Beverage student added: "Make it go away. I don't want to go to jail.'' This week he told Mr. Warner: "I'm sorry for wasting the court's time and I guarantee it won't happen again.'' Mr. Warner responded: "That's all very noble of him because he has two convictions now.'' And Owen Patrick Edwards will return to court on November 28 for trial for having 2.76 grammes of cannabis on June 1.

Mr. Warner found that Edwards, 25, of Eve's Hill Lane, Pembroke gave an "equivocal'' plea to the charge and ordered the trial. Edwards was freed on $800 bail.