19 Feb 2020

Sailors escape jail for dealing in drugs

From Morning Report, 6:13 am on 19 February 2020

Two young Navy sailors have escaped prison time for dealing in drugs.

The men pleaded guilty before a Court Martial to obtaining and supplying the class-B drug MDMA, which is better known as ecstasy.

Both men have been sentenced to military detention and after that will be dismissed from the Navy.

RNZ reporter, Andrew McRae has been at the Court Martial at the Devonport Naval Base.