How Did Rep, Musu Bility’s Son, Peach Bility Get Caught Up In The Anti-Drug Dragnet?
PHOTO: Defendant Peach Bility
By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com
TEMPLE OF JUSTICE, Monrovia- Criminal Court “C” presided over by assigned Judge Joe S. Barkon sentenced the son of Nimba County District #7 Representative Musa Bility, Peach H. Bility to four years jail sentence for unlicensed possession of drug and other crimes.
The prison sentence was handed down over the weekend (Friday July 18,2025).
“WHEREFORE AND IN VIEW OF THE FOREGOJNG, it is the candid decision of this Court that the Defendant, Pecah H. Bility, for entering a guilty plea voluntarily with remorse, is hereby ordered sentence to prison for a sentence period of FOUR YEARS (4) YEARS with the deduction.
Last year, based upon intelligence received from confidential informers alerting the LDEA, defendant Peach Bility was arrested in Plain-view on the premises of Miami Beach in Mamba Point at about 11: 26pm, while smoking weeds as admitted to in his voluntary statement to the LDEA investigation. That was read by his Attorney representing him on March 27, 2024,
The ruling further said, of the EIGHT MONTHS pre-trial detention period, and that THREE (3) MONTHS to the expiry date of his sentence period, he shall be released to the authorities of the Division of Probation Services at the Ministry of Justice, the Republic of Liberia for counseling and Probation services including rehabilitation, which shall prepare him for reintegration into the Society and make meaningful contribution to societal development.
The Clerk is hereby ordered to transmit this Portion of the ruling to the authorities of the Monrovia Central Prison to affect the Court’s decision regarding the Defendant serving his sentence period. AND SAME IS HERE SO ORDERD.
Peach Billy recently entered into a plea-bargaining agreement between state prosecutors and the defense lawyer.
Criminal Procedure law Chapter 16 §16.5. Arraignment, judgment, and sentence after plea of guilty.
Chapter 16 section 16.5 of the Criminal Procedure law states that, if a defendant after indictment desires to enter a plea of guilty, he shall be arraigned immediately in open court even though the court is not then in session. If this plea is accepted, sentence shall be imposed without delay, or immediately on the receipt of a presentence report if such a report is required by law or requested by the judge. No trial is necessary following a plea of guilty. A sentence imposed in chambers after a plea of guilty shall have the same force and effect as though in open court. The clerk shall record the judgment and enter sentence in the manner provided for judgments and sentences pronounced in open court.
The government of Liberia indicted the son of Representative Bility on two counts during the May A.D. 2024 term of court.
Following his guilty plea, lawyer representing Peach Bility Cllr. Micheal Wilkins Wright, requested court to disband sequestered jurors, a move the prosecution interposed with no objection.
Meanwhile, the judge Joe S. Barkon instructed the clerk of court to write the probation office at the Ministry of Justice to conduct a pre-sentence investigation on the character of the defendant within five days, in order for the court to make an informed decision.
Defendant Bility through his lawyer earlier requested for jury trial and fifteen jurors selected to be stationed at the Temple of Justice underground for a specified period of time but he today summonsaulted and pleaded guilty after he initially pleaded not guilty.
The drugs valued at Four Hundred and Twenty Eight United States Dollars (US$ 428.00) or its equivalent valued in Liberians’ Dollars as Eighty One Thousand three hundred twenty Liberian Dollars (LS 81,320.00) and Seven thousand five hundred United States Dollars or it equivalent at One Million four hundred twenty five thousand Liberian Dollars (L$ 1,425,000.00) respectively,
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Peach Bility was indicted by the government on multiple offenses UNLICENSED POSSESSION, DISPENSATION, DELIVERY, DISTRIBUTION, DIS-PATCH IN TRANSIT, AND TRANSPORTATION OF
SALE, TRADE ADMINISTRATION, CONTROLLED DRUG OR SUBSTANCE (14.85) AND UNLICENSED POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED DRUGS AND SUBSTANCES
The Grand Jury for Montserrado County, Republic of Liberia, upon their Oath, do hereby find more probable than not, that the Defendant Peach H. Bility, did commit the crime of Unlicensed Possession, Sale, Trade Administration, Dispensation, Delivery, Distribution, Dispatch in Transit and Transportation of Controlled Drugs and Substances and Unlicensed Possession of Controlled Drugs and Substances, both Crimes (14.85 & 14.89) being felony of the first degree of the Amended Penal Code of Liberia showeth as to wit:
Count one of the indictment stated That, on the 24th of March A.D. 2024 at about 11:26 pm on record, defendant Peach H. Bility of 72nd Boulevard Total Gas Station, Paynesville, Montserrado County, Republic of Liberia was arrested within the Facility of Miami Beach, Coconut Plantation, Mamba Point, Monrovia, where he deals, trades and supply dangerous drugs and controlled substances from his Gray Color plate A41029-LB vehicles to members of his scheme on the Miami beach and other beaches near and far in Monrovia and surrounding communities.
Count one further That, it is evident and a shared experience amongst security apparatus meaningly the LDEA and Police field operational officers assigned across the country, that the consumers of those dangerous substances and drugs some of which were caught in defendant Bility’s possession and on board his car are keys amongst those drugs and substances that are contributing immensely to crimes and destruction of thousands of young people lives in Liberia.
More to that, the conducts and behaviors of users of those dangerous drugs substances continues to mete physical and emotional harms on community dwellers in the forms of robbery, taking away people personal belonging, and as well as breeding the tendencies of fears in residents, businesses and visitors in communities around the bailiwick and jurisdiction of Liberia;
That, based upon intelligence received from confidential informers alerting the LDEA, defendant Peach Bility was arrested in Plain-view on the premises of Miami Beach in Mamba Point at about 11: 26pm while smoking weeds as admitted to in his voluntary statement to the LDEA investigation which was read and witness by his Attorney representing him on March 27, 2024,
That, during the Search of the defendant’s vehicle with his presence and expressed consent, several items to include dangerous drugs were discovered therefrom to include Twenty One, point four (21.4) gram of mixtures of Cannabis and Fentanyl commonly known as Kush, and Five Hundred (500) grams of Marijuana scientifically known as Cannabis and locally known as Lawo amongst criminals and users, one (1) piece of Single Barrel Pistol, one (1) piece of Orange Color Gun with full description as follow SCC4-CPX-29MM, one (1) Black Pistol description-Black AGUL 175 made in the USA and one (1) pack/rounds of ammunition respectively,