Guilty Plea: Stealing Car Battery
In Magistrates Court this morning [Feb.21], forty-six year old Calvin Virgil pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a car battery worth $90 from RayClan Ltd.
Accepting his plea, Senior Magistrate Archie Warner ordered a Social Inquiry Report and told Mr Virgil to return to Court on 30th March 2012 for sentencing.
The Court was told that on New Year’s Day 1st January 2012, patrolling Police had seen Mr Virgil in the immediate vicinity of the RayClan Ltd junked car parking lot.
At the time that they spotted him, Mr Virgil was carrying a bag slung over his shoulder. On stopping and checking him, police saw that his hands were covered in oil and grease and found that the bag contained a battery.
Mr Virgil admitted to police that he had taken the battery from a vehicle in the lot. In Court this morning, Mr Virgil told the Magistrate that he had taken the battery from a car-frame that had no engine, a twisted chassis, and whose top had been cut.
He told the Magistrate that, in his opinion, the car-frame was destined for the Airport dump; and that he had taken the car battery from that car-frame.
Mr Virgil said that he was going through a divorce, was facing a large payment to lawyers, and was “embarrassed by the whole thing.” The Magistrate granted Mr Virgil $2,000 bail.
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