Lemonal Resident Fined for Public Intoxication; Faces Jail Time if Unpaid

Fifty-nine-year-old Lemonal Village resident Sherman Banner was fined in court this week after police found him intoxicated in public. Banner appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court charged with a single count of being found drunk in a public place. To which he immediately pleaded guilty. He was fined a total of thirty dollars which he needs to pay by August 30, or he will face a week in prison. Banner was picked up on the Bermudian Landing Road on Saturday August 3.