Category: Court Reports
Bermudian Faces 19 Criminal Charges In Canada
According to Canadian media and police reports, 24-year-old Bermudian Jakio Williams faces a total of 19 criminal charges in Canada, including multiple firearm, robbery, assault and ‘forcible confinement’ charges. He is charged alongside three other people [Canadian citizens] in connection with three robberies over the last two months in... Read more of this article
Man Arrested For 12-Year-Old Traffic Offence
A 63-year-old man appeared in Magistrates Court this morning [July 11] after being arrested for a traffic offence that occurred over twelve years ago. Mr John Jordan was picked up on an old arrest warrant dating from June 2000. After spending time in Police custody and appearing in court, Senior Magistrate Archie Warner dismissed the charge and freed... Read more of this article
60-Year-Old Woman Denies Assault Charge
In Magistrates Court this morning [July 11] a 60-year-old woman appeared facing assault charges, charges which she denied. Susan Cooper pleaded not guilty to assaulting a 22-year-old female in March 2012. She was released on $2,000 bail and will stand trial in October. Related Stories Privy Council Quashes Washington’s Conviction WRC Commends Verdict... Read more of this article
Three People Charged With Defrauding BF&M
In Magistrates Court this morning [July 9] three Filipino nationals pleaded not guilty to a series of charges of defrauding BF&M Insurance Co Ltd of approximately $75,000. The slew of charges covered the period April 2011 to March 2012. Camille Canillas Orteza, 25, pleaded not guilty to eleven charges of obtaining money and attempting to money.... Read more of this article
Man Charged With Stealing $6 From Tip Jar
20-year-old Akiri Trott pleaded not guilty this morning [July 9] to a charge of theft said to have occurred at Foxy’s Cafe on Harrington Sound Road in Smith’s Parish. The total value involved was $6, which was said to have been taken from the cafe’s ‘tip jar’ and said to have taken place on 6th July 2012. Taking a previous... Read more of this article
Court Hears Man Lived In Tent For 14 Years
A 50-year-old man appeared in Court this morning [July 9] having using threatening words to a woman who claimed ownership of a property where he had lived in a tent for 14 years. Calvin Carmichael pleaded guilty to using threatening words to a woman who claimed ownership of the property, and was given a Conditional Discharge by the Senior Magistrate... Read more of this article
Barbara Tannock Sentenced To Six Months
Former banking executive Barbara Tannock was sentenced to six months in prison this afternoon [July 6] after pleading guilty to stealing $76,500 from an elderly couple. During her sentencing hearing, she returned most the money she was convicted of stealing, with her lawyer handing over a cashier’s check for $70,000. Ms Tannock, 42, previously... Read more of this article
Man Receives Suspended Sentence For Fraud
Senior Magistrate Archie Warner handed down a sentence of six months in prison to a Trinidadian man convicted of fraud, but suspended that custodial sentence for 24 months. Sentence was passed on Joel Balfour, a 42 year-old who said that he was working in Bermuda as an IT engineer, and who had been convicted, by his own admission, of defrauding a Jamaican... Read more of this article
39-Year-Old Woman Denies Assault Charges
Tenyah Trott, 39, pleaded not guilty to unlawfully assaulting another woman in St George’s on 18th June 2012. She also pleaded not guilty to unlawfully damaging the other woman’s clothing and sunglasses/shades. Senior Magistrate Archie Warner set Ms Trott’s trial for 25th October 2012 and granted her bail of $2,000. Related Stories Privy... Read more of this article
Two Teens Appear In Magistrates Court
In Magistrates Court this morning 17-year-old Sanchea Douglas pleaded not guilty to taking a Vespa scooter on 2nd May 2012; and not guilty to taking another cycle, this time a Honda Scoopy, on the same day, 2nd May 2012. Douglas was granted bail of $5,000, was required to find a Surety, and must come back for trial on 18th July 2012. In an entirely... Read more of this article
Sisters Who Stole From Grandmother Jailed
[Updated] 46-year-old Lorraine Elizabeth Smith and 44-year-old Audra-Ann Bean were jailed for 15 months today [July 4] after earlier being convicted of stealing approximately half a million dollars from their own grandmother. The sisters were given 15 month sentence for senior abuse and 15 months for the theft, with sentences to run concurrently. Update... Read more of this article
Teenager Charged: Good Friday Attack
In Magistrates Court this morning [July 4], 17-year-old Gavaska Lodge-Bascome faced the indictable charges of unlawfully wounding and causing grieving bodily harm and unlawfully possessing a bladed article. The allegations stem from an alleged group attack incident at Southampton Rangers Sports Club on Good Friday. Crown Prosecutor Carrington Mahoney... Read more of this article
