28-Yr-Old Thief Remanded In Custody
Jamel Nesbitt, 28-years-old and said to be of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to five charges in Magistrates Court yesterday morning [Feb.9].
One involving the theft of a motorcycle and four related to the theft and use of cheques that he had stolen from a person who was known to him.
The evidence was that Mr Nesbitt had taken the motorcycle from a Pembroke address on 4th February 2012 and had been stopped and arrested by Police in Sandy’s who were looking or him in connection with the cheque charges.
Mr Nesbitt was said to have taken the cheques between a date unknown and 18th January 2012. After taking them he had attempted to cash the cheques at the Butterfield Bank branch in Somerset. The cheque that he proffered was made out to himself for $973. However the teller saw that this would overdraw the account and sought advice from her supervisor.
The cheque was refused but the attempt was still a breach of the law. Mr Nesbitt was easily identified because in offering ID as requested by the bank teller, Mr Nesbitt had given her his Voter’s ID card. He did not stay to complete the false transaction, left the bank, but left his Voter’s Card with the teller.
Mr Nesbitt had claimed to have found the cheque in the road, but Senior Magistrate Archie Warner did not accept that. Before proceeding further, the Senior Magistrate asked for Mr Nesbitt’s record.
His record showed that he had first run afoul of the law in 1996 when he was thirteen. He had been in and out of youth detention and adult detention facilities ever since.
The Magistrate rejected a Court Services request that Mr Nesbitt, who was already on probation, should be assigned to the Drug Court program. The Magistrate ordered a Social Inquiry Report [SIR], a Bermuda Assessment and Referral Centre report [BARC] and ordered that Mr Nesbitt should be held in custody until 30th March when he will be sentenced.
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