Category: Court Reports
Court: 16-Year-Old Charged With Burglary
16-year-old Daeshon Warner appeared in Magistrates Court this morning [May 16] facing a charge of burglary. He is accused of entering a property and stealing iPods, iPod chargers, jewelery, a beer mug, and currency in the form of Bermuda cash, US cash, Trinidadian cash, and cash from Abu Dhabi. This was alleged to have happened on 1st May 2012, and... Read more of this article
Man Jailed For 9 Months For Smashing ATM
Earlier convicted of smashing an HSBC ATM because it “ate his card”, 32-year-old Paul Williams will spend the next nine months in prison. This was the sentence handed out by Senior Magistrate Archie Warner this morning [May 16] after he had read and reviewed a psychiatric report on Williams. The pre-sentencing report had been requested at... Read more of this article
Drugs: Regiment Soldier In Jamaican Court
19-year-old Bermuda Regiment Private Jordan Shabazz was left behind in Jamaica to face a Jamaican Magistrate and answer to charges of possessing and attempting to export approximately 680 grams of cannabis [1.5lbs]. The Regiment charter jet left Montego Bay’s Sangster Airport on Saturday 12th May, with the soldiers returning to Bermuda later that... Read more of this article
16-Yr-Old Defends Herself, Wins Headphone Case
In Magistrates Court this morning [May 15], 16-year-old Saltus student Latonia Fray successfully defended herself and won her case against the Crown’s allegation that she had been breaking the law by using a hand-held device whilst riding her cycle. The Crown’s evidence was that Police had seen Ms Fray [pictured] riding in Hamilton on 22nd December... Read more of this article
Cruise Passenger Fined For Drug Possession
In Plea Court this morning [May 15] 30-year-old American tourist Trevis Gembarowski, a passenger on the cruise ship ‘Norwegian Dawn’ pleaded guilty to two charges involving the possession of 7.16 grams of Cannabis and 0.88 grams of Ecstasy. The DPP Prosecutor told Senior Magistrate Archie Warner that around 1:25pm on Sunday 13th May, a Bermuda Customs... Read more of this article
Bean/Burrows Found Guilty Of 34 Counts
Kyril Burrows and Delcina Bean-Burrows were found guilty last night [May 14] of stealing over $500,000 of the taxpayers money. During the almost three month long trial, the Supreme Court jury heard the couple used extensive amounts of taxpayer dollars for various personal expenses, including building on their St George’s property. Mr Burrows —... Read more of this article
Court: Man Removed EMD With Screwdriver
36- year-old Kawesi Wilson was back before Senior Magistrate Archie Warner this morning [May 14] to face and plead guilty to a charge of damaging an Electronic Monitoring Device [EMD]. The EMD had been part of the two year Probation Order that Wilson had received in February 2012 after being convicted in Magistrates Court. The Magistrate was told that... Read more of this article
22-Yr-Old Man Charged: Handling Ammunition
22-year-old Julian Washington of Pembroke was remanded into custody this morning [May 14] to re-appear on Monday 28th May 2012. Mr Washington faced the charge of unlawfully handling a .45 calibre cartridge on 8th January 2012 in Pembroke Parish. The case must be tried in the Supreme Court so he was not required to enter a plea, and he was remanded... Read more of this article
Man Fined For Stealing $19 Worth Of Socks
In Plea Court this morning [May 11] a 43-year-old man with a series of prior convictions pleaded guilty to stealing a $19 packet of socks and was fined $500. The facts read out to the Senior Magistrate were that on 28th April, a manager at Price-Rite’s Mills Creek shop had seen Rudy Smith place something in the inside of the blue windbreaker that... Read more of this article
Man Pleads Guilty: Passing Counterfeit Currency
25-year-old Ronico Richardson pled guilty to four counts of passing counterfeit currency in Magistrates’ Court yesterday [May 10]. The offences took place at two Front Street establishments on November 18th 2011, with the defendant admitting to passing two counterfeit U.S. $50 notes at each location. As a result, Richardson was fined $3,000 by Magistrate... Read more of this article
Cannabis: Westgate Prisoner Pleads Not Guilty
Attired in a Westgate orange sweatsuit ensemble, 33-year-old Quincy Brangman sat in the prisoner’s enclosure in this morning’s [May 10] Plea Court facing a charge of possessing cannabis in an Increased Penalty Zone – namely inside Westgate Correctional Facility. The drugs were allegedly found on 28th September 2011. Brangman pleaded not guilty.... Read more of this article
Grandmother To Court: “He’s Not Cooperating”
Teenager Taaj Muhammad, who had previously been convicted of mugging another teenager and who had been placed on Probation for that offence, was this morning [May 10] sent to the COED facility for nine months after his Probation Order was revoked. The Probation Office had brought Muhammad back to Court because his great-grandmother, who had offered... Read more of this article
