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Man Pleads Guilty To Handling Stolen Laptop
In Plea Court this morning [Mar.15], 24-year-old unemployed Ijahmon Mallory admitted receiving the Mac laptop that had been stolen during the course of the armed robbery of American visitors Mrs Krolius and her two children at their Southampton holiday residence on 8th March 2012. The DPP Prosecutor told Magistrate Khomisi Tokunbo that Police had tracked... Read more of this article
25 Year Sentence For Attempted Murder
22-year-old Anwar Muhammad was sentenced to 25 years in prison today [Mar.14], after being convicted of attempted murder earlier this year. Mr Muhammad was charged with the shooting of Princeton Burrows in August of 2010 in Sandys parish. Mr Burrows was shot while at the junction of Middle Road in Sandys and Woodlawn Road [outside Maximart] at 3.45pm... Read more of this article
Taxi Driver Jailed For Selling Crack
37-year-old taxi driver Hewvonnie Brown of St David’s was sent to jail for two and half years this morning [Mar.13] for drugs offences involving $13,000 worth of crack cocaine and over $52,000 of cash that was the proceeds of illegal drug transactions. After being tipped off, Police had stopped Brown in Hamilton on 21st March 2011. Police found the... Read more of this article
Suspended Sentence For Growing Cannabis
39-year-old David Cunningham of Knapton Close Smith’s Parish escaped an immediate custodial sentence for his offence of cultivating and possessing cannabis. Following submissions by Crown Prosecutor Nicole Smith and defence lawyer Charles Richardson, and after reading B.A.R.C and S.I.R. reports, Magistrate Khomisi Tokunbo sentenced Mr Cunningham to... Read more of this article
Man Pleads Guilty: Handling Stolen Goods
In Plea Court yesterday morning [Mar.12], 21-year-old Tristan Daniels of Hamilton Parish pleaded guilty to a charge of handling a Mac laptop computer that had been stolen during the course of an armed robbery involving American tourists last week in Southampton. Despite arguing that he had no knowledge that the laptop had been stolen, Daniels was remanded... Read more of this article
Four Plead Guilty: $3.4 Million Drug Case
This morning [Mar.12] in Supreme Court, four of the “Carefree Five” plead guilty to drug charges minutes before their trial was due to start. Carlos Rogers, Shaun Johnson, Kinola Simons and Bilal Shakir all pleaded guilty to possessing or handling a controlled drug, however pleaded not guilty to conspiring to import a controlled drug. The... Read more of this article
Woman Charged After Traffic Collision
In Magistrates Court on Friday [Mar.9], 50-year-old Tracey Pitt faced six counts in the aftermath of a traffic collision that happened on 29th January 2012, and left two brothers in the Intensive Care Unit. Because the charges were ruled to be indictable, they can only be tried in the Supreme Court, and she was not required to enter a plea. Ms Pitt... Read more of this article
Man & Woman Appear On Drug Charges
In Magistrates Court this morning [Mar.8], 43-year old Anthony Lewis Davis of Schools Drive Devonshire was charged with two counts involving controlled drugs. Count one was that on 17th February 2012, he had cannabis in his possession and that he had this amount with the intent to supply. The second count was that on the same date, he had in his possession... Read more of this article
Rickai Dickinson Sentenced To 10 Years
[Updated] 27-year-old Rickai Dickinson was sentenced to 10 years in prison this morning [Mar.8], and must serve 5 before he can be considered for parole. Mr Dickinson admitted handling a firearm minutes before his trial was due to begin earlier this week. He had been charged with handling the gun in St George’s on June 5, 2011. A police statement... Read more of this article
Curtis Associate Admits Fraud Charges
A Montana man has admitted to bilking investors out of nearly $2 million in a scheme which involved Bermudian Andre Curtis [pictured], pleading guilty to multiple charges of conspiracy and fraud in US District Court yesterday [Mar.7]. Dan Two Feathers is one of three men charged by a US federal grand jury with running the complicated “Ponzi”... Read more of this article
Convicted Killer Derek Spalding Gets Life
[Updated] 36-year-old Derek Spalding was sentenced to life in prison this morning [Mar.7], and must serve 38 years before he will be eligible for parole. Earlier this month he was found guilty of the murder of Shaki Crockwell, a national level football player who was murdered in 2007. The 25-year-old’s body was found on the Railway Trail in Devonshire... Read more of this article
$500 Fine For Damaging Gas Station
In Magistrates Court this morning [Mar.6] 54-year-old George Mouchette, saying that “they don’t make glass like they used to,” admitted kicking in the glass door at the Somerset Esso Station on the night of 24th January 2012 and causing damage valued at $486. The facts read out by the Plea Court prosecutor were that Mr Mouchette had turned up... Read more of this article
