Cruise Passenger Fined $800 For Cannabis

26-year-old Brooklyn resident Jonathan Cruz — who is visiting Bermuda as a passenger on the cruise ship “Norwegian Star” — this morning [May 17] pleaded guilty to possessing 12 grams of cannabis. According to the Crown Prosecutor, at 1:52pm on Wednesday 16th May, a Bermuda Customs K-9 search team had found the illegal drug in [...]

Court: 16-Year-Old Charged With Burglary

16-year-old Daeshon Warner appeared in Magistrates Court this morning [May 16] facing a charge of burglary. He is accused of entering a property and stealing iPods, iPod chargers, jewelery, a beer mug, and currency in the form of Bermuda cash, US cash, Trinidadian cash, and cash from Abu Dhabi. This was alleged to have happened [...]

Man Jailed For 9 Months For Smashing ATM

Earlier convicted of smashing an HSBC ATM because it “ate his card”, 32-year-old Paul Williams will spend the next nine months in prison. This was the sentence handed out by Senior Magistrate Archie Warner this morning [May 16] after he had read and reviewed a psychiatric report on Williams. The pre-sentencing report had been requested [...]

Drugs: Regiment Soldier In Jamaican Court

19-year-old Bermuda Regiment Private Jordan Shabazz was left behind in Jamaica to face a Jamaican Magistrate and answer to charges of possessing and attempting to export approximately 680 grams of cannabis [1.5lbs]. The Regiment charter jet left Montego Bay’s Sangster Airport on Saturday 12th May, with the soldiers returning to Bermuda later that afternoon, and [...]

16-Yr-Old Defends Herself, Wins Headphone Case

In Magistrates Court this morning [May 15], 16-year-old Saltus student Latonia Fray successfully defended herself and won her case against the Crown’s allegation that she had been breaking the law by using a hand-held device whilst riding her cycle. The Crown’s evidence was that Police had seen Ms Fray [pictured] riding in Hamilton on 22nd [...]

Cruise Passenger Fined For Drug Possession

In Plea Court this morning [May 15] 30-year-old American Tourist Trevis Gembarowski, a passenger on the cruise ship ‘Norwegian Dawn’ pleaded guilty to two charges involving the possession of 7.16 grams of Cannabis and 0.88 grams of Ecstasy. The DPP Prosecutor told Senior Magistrate Archie Warner that around 1:25pm on Sunday 13th May, a Bermuda [...]

Bean/Burrows Found Guilty Of 34 Counts

Kyril Burrows and Delcina Bean-Burrows were found guilty last night [May 14] of stealing over $500,000 of the taxpayers money. During the almost three month long trial, the Supreme Court jury heard the couple used extensive amounts of taxpayer dollars for various personal expenses, including building on their St George’s property. Mr Burrows — an [...]

Court: Man Removed EMD With Screwdriver

36- year-old Kawesi Wilson was back before Senior Magistrate Archie Warner this morning [May 14] to face and plead guilty to a charge of damaging an Electronic Monitoring Device [EMD]. The EMD had been part of the two year Probation Order that Wilson had received in February 2012 after being convicted in Magistrates Court. The [...]

22-Yr-Old Man Charged: Handling Ammunition

22-year-old Julian Washington of Pembroke was remanded into custody this morning [May 14] to re-appear on Monday 28th May 2012. Mr Washington faced the charge of unlawfully handling a .45 calibre cartridge on 8th January 2012 in Pembroke Parish. The case must be tried in the Supreme Court so he was not required to enter [...]

Man Fined For Stealing $19 Worth Of Socks

In Plea Court this morning [May 11] a 43-year-old man with a series of prior convictions pleaded guilty to stealing a $19 packet of socks and was fined $500. The facts read out to the Senior Magistrate were that on 28th April, a manager at Price-Rite’s Mills Creek shop had seen Rudy Smith place something [...]

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