‘Skill’ Cole gets 18 months, fined $1 million

Alan ‘Skill’ Cole, one of Jamaica’s best known footballers, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months behind bars and fined $1.015 million after being found guilty on several drug-related charges arising out of an incident in February 2002. According to Cole’s attorney Patrick Atkinson, the football icon was sentenced to pay $15,000 for possession of marijuana, $500,000, for dealing in marijuana and $500,000 for taking steps to export marijuana from Jamaica.

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