Man Pleads Guilty: Receiving Stolen Gold Jewelry
In Magistrates Court this morning [Jan 10], Oronde Dillas, 21, pleaded guilty to the alternate charge of receiving goods, knowing them to be stolen, on 17th November 2012.
The Prosecutor told Senior Magistrate Archie Warner that Dillas had taken the jewelry, said by the owners to be worth $3,250, to a gold exchange store in Hamilton.
Police were informed and the jewelry was later identified by the owners as their property and which had been stolen. In the Prosecutor’s evidence, it was said that Dillas was a friend of the family and had been in the family’s house, by invitation, on the 15th of November 2012.
Speaking for Dillas, Duty Counsel Oonagh Vaucrosson said that her instructions from Mr Dillas were that Dillas had simply been at the gold exchange store when the jewelry was offered up and that he’d played no part in that transaction. She said that Dillas had told her that: “It was a coincidence that he was there when the gold was offered.”
It was remarked in Court that Dillas must have had “the worst luck in the world” to have been at the house 48 hours before and then find himself at the gold exchange store
Acknowledging that this was Dillas’s first offence and that he was planning to go abroad to study, the Magistrate agreed with Duty Counsel, ordered a Social Inquiry Report and set 27th February as Dillas’s sentencing date. Magistrate Warner set bail at $3,000, required a surety, and ordered that Dillas must not leave Bermuda without the Court’s permission.
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You idiot!!! Isn’t it just common sense that when you try to sell STOLEN items to the gold exchange place, your arse will get caught. You need to start reading the paper. You are not the first case. It has happened before and them idiots got caught. IDIOT!!!
More get away with it than get caught. Need to close these places down!
Agreed, these places receive more stolen goods than you can imagine then conveniently express it off the island in some cases before its even been reported, they are promoting the theft of jewelry
Well what would happen if we did not have these stores? The stuff would be on the street instead – at least this way they are being caught!!!
Such dumb arses for doing it in the first place – get a job and stop stealing others stuff.
Sorry-wrong! In fact, it is just the opposite- more people are having their goods recovered THANKS to these places. In the past, these guys would steal and sell the jewelry out on the streets. The owners had little or no hope of recovery. Now, they head straight for the gold shops not realizing that the police already gave them the heads up. The company has a log on stolen jewelry, if an item is on there the police are notified immediately. How many cases have we heard about lately? These fools don’t learn and they get caught out. I don’t see why the business should be closed down because of some thieving fools. Why should people who use the service legitimately be punished? Y-Gurl, you don’t have a clue what you are talking about. The business does not conveniently ship things out before the jewelry is reported stolen. You have no knowledge that this in fact happens so stop making things up.
Choices and consequences. Another young person who had a bright future has now entered the revolving door. Still not too late but it is up to him. It just got a lot harder!
Young kids 25 and under…… My..my…my…my..my (not all of you OK.. but a vast majority of you).
Your parents should have breast fed you. That Enfamil you were brought up on has dried up your brain cells from a very young age. Maybe we should open a school for stupidity. I can guarantee the graduation rate would be through the roof.
Question, where does the cash that these places give to people in return for gold actually come from? With so much focus on the effect of having such business’s, it seems we are overlooking a much bigger problem……..bps, bma, let’s look into this!
People really need to educate themselves. Gold is a commodity. There is money to be made buying and selling it. I don’t understand the big concern about the cash for gold companies. There are people that are going to use it for criminal means, but the majority of people use it legitimately. It is pure ignorance to call for the closure of these companies. If a thief steals your checkbook and cashes it at the bank, are you going to call for all banks to be closed down?