Category: Court Reports
Burglar Caught On CCTV, Pleads Guilty
Appearing in Magistrates Court this morning [Sept 16], Andre Tucker, 31, pleaded guilty to burglarizing an occupied house on Cavendish Road on Friday 13th September. He was remanded into custody until his sentencing date of 30th October. Crown Prosecutor Carrington Mahoney told Senior Magistrate Archie Warner that on Friday evening a nine-year old girl... Read more of this article
Visitor Jailed For Not Paying $8,000 Hotel Bill
65-year-old Canadian visitor Neil Crane had his stay in Bermuda extended after he was given a thirty day prison sentence following his conviction for failing to pay an $8,000 hotel bill owed to Clearview Suites. That was the decision handed down in Magistrates Court this morning [Sept 16] after Mr Carne re-appeared for sentencing and had not made restitution... Read more of this article
Drug Accused Chooses Supreme Court Trial
Offered the regular choice between a trial in Magistrate’s Court or a jury trial in Supreme Court, Megael Burch, 42 chose a Supreme Court trial. The charge he faced was that of importing over 400 grams of cannabis on 28th March 2013; said to be worth more than $21,000. Because he had elected a Supreme Court trial, he was not required to enter... Read more of this article
Man Sentenced To 10 Days For Assaulting Wife
This morning [Sept 12] Stuart Lottimore, 46, was sentenced to ten days in prison for assaulting his wife and breaking her glasses. The assault happened on 19th July, and he pleaded guilty on 25th July and has been remanded into custody while a Social Inquiry Report was prepared. In this morning’s judgment, Senior Magistrate Archie Warner also put... Read more of this article
33-Year-Old Man Pleads Guilty To Assault
Demetrius Byrd, 33, admitted in Magistrates Court this morning [Sept 11] that on 13th July, at a Hermitage Road apartment house, he head-butted one of the owners of the house. Mr Byrd pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawfully assaulting another man but told Senior magistrate Archie Warner that the man and his son were both students of martial arts;... Read more of this article
“Robbing Hood” Suspect Remanded In Custody
Forty-nine year old Kevin Webb was remanded into custody until his trial on 4th December 2013 after he had pleaded not guilty in Magistrates Court this morning [Sept 11] to a charge of trespassing in a Warwick residence and stealing two flat-screen TV’s and jewellery to the value of $2,235. Deputy DPP Cindy Clarke said that the offence was alleged... Read more of this article
Pair Plead Not Guilty To Drug Conspiracy
Jamal Woodley, 23, of St Georges, and Katelyn Simmons, 27, of Pembroke elected to be tried in Magistrates Court and both pleaded not guilty to conspiring to import $9,600 worth of the illegal drug cannabis. The charge was that between a date unknown and 28th February 2013, in Bermuda and elsewhere, they conspired with others not before the Court to... Read more of this article
St George’s Women Answer Court Charges
St Georgian Ms Recquel Furbert, 24, pleaded not guilty to assaulting another St George’s woman on 4th August 2013, and causing bodily harm to her. Ms Furbert told Senior Magistrate Archie Warner that she was due to go back to school in New York at the end of September. The Magistrate acknowledged this and adjourned the matter until 17th September... Read more of this article
Employers Face Insurance Non-Payment Charge
According to Deputy DPP head, Ms Cindy Clarke, for the first time in over ten, possibly fifteen years, Bermuda employers have been charged with failing to provide health insurance cover for their employees; and with taking payroll deductions from their employees, and then failing to apply those payroll deductions to providing health insurance. Employer... Read more of this article
Canadian Visitor Provided Accommodation In Jail
When sixty-five year old Canadian visitor Neil Crane appeared, in Police custody, in Monday’s [Sept 9] Plea Court, Crane pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving Clearview Suites without paying a $8,409.49 accommodation charge. Crown Prosecutor Cindy Clarke told the Senior Magistrate that Crane had checked into Clearview on 5th July and had left Clearview... Read more of this article
Pregnant Girlfriend Asks To Drop Assault Charge
Mikhail Butterfield, 23, pleaded not guilty when he appeared in Magistrates Court today [Sept 9], to unlawfully assaulting his girlfriend who his seven months pregnant with twins. He also pleaded not guilty to uttering threatening words and using threatening behaviour to her by saying: “If you leave me, I will f***ing kill you.” Both allegations... Read more of this article
Marlboro Man Remanded After Guilty Plea
Fifty-three year old Kevin Charles Robinson will learn his fate on 10th October after he pleaded guilty in Magistrates Court this morning [Sept 9] to five charges involving the theft of eight cartons of Marlboro cigarettes from five different shops. The cartons of Marlboros were stolen from Woodbourne Chemist on 22nd August; Clarendon Pharmacy on 24th... Read more of this article
