Man Fined $500 For Stealing $90 Of Shrimp
Appearing in Magistrates Court this morning [June 9], a 53 year old man admitted stealing three bags of shrimp from the Hamilton Marketplace last year, explaining to the Court he was under the influence of alcohol when he stole the seafood.
The Court heard that Franklin Smith was seen in the store acting suspiciously, and while he paid for some items, he was found to have stolen three bags of frozen shrimp, valued at approximately $90.
Mr. Smith admitted the June 2013 offence, telling the Court that he had come from a funeral, had been drinking and that he was sorry.
Senior Magistrate Archie Warner fined Mr. Smith $500.
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$90 for three bags of shrimp!!
Who is it that’s stealing?
Hello!!
Does he have a Job?
He should have been sentenced to help unload trucks at MP.
What a waste of tax payers ……
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How shellfish of him!!!
Sure he was at a funeral and the spirit spoke to him and said steal some shrimp lol. Only in Bermy.
Got drunk & stole 3 bags of shrimp smh… should have been high instead & ate em right in the store
Here we see it once again. An individual possibly can’t afford to pay the $500:00 fine and ends up at Westgate costing the taxpayers more dollars:-( Why not put them to work on some Govt. project like clean the bushes / streets of bottles and cans etc. that have become far too unsightly ? (This will undoubtedly save Govt. / taxpayer dollars that are presently scarce)
Raymond Ray I fully agree with you!
Govt. has to lay out a program by which offenders who do these simplistic simple stupid acts are not placed
in our very very expensive WestGate Facility but are made to do work for several days.
Now Raymond we know if this person is sent to WestGate because he cannot pay the $500 fine, it’s liable to cost the Taxpayer several
thousand dollars – and God forbid if the Bye has medical problems how much it’s going to cost.
One has to ask- is our Judges/Magistrates working with Modern standards and do they understand the economics’ or are they just living in the past – which is Jail everything and anybody that stands before them – Westgate is Moneygate — and borrowed money at that.
Too much hard work to implement Raymond Ray. That would take organization to do!
He should have been assigned ‘$90 worth of community service’.
I have six locks on my door all in a row.When I go out I …I lock every other.I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks they are always locking three…..