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Woman Pleads Guilty: Jewellery Theft
50-year-old Devonshire resident and self-confessed heroin user Ingrid Rose Lindo pleaded guilty to stealing $3,400 worth of jewelry from her neighbor and friend of 40 years, after claiming she needed to use her friend’s computer to check Facebook. The guilty plea was entered in answer to a charge in court on Friday that she had stolen a wedding... Read more of this article
Antonio Myers Jailed For 38 Years
26-year-old Antonio Myers was sentenced today [Sept.23] to life in prison for the murder of Kumi Harford. The Judge directed he must serve minimum of 38 years before he can be considered for parole. 30-year-old Kumi Harford was killed at around 5am on St. Monica’s Road on December 5th, 2009, when a hail of bullets struck his car as he was driving... Read more of this article
Teen Charged: Attempted Couch Fire
In Plea Court this morning [Sept.23], a 16-year-old was charged with willfully causing damage. The details of the charge were that on 19th September 2011, he had tried to set fire to a couch that was within a building. Because the charge is indictable, and can only be tried in the Supreme Court before a judge and jury, the juvenile, represented by Duty... Read more of this article
Two Teens Charged: Resisting Arrest
Two young men, both the worse for drink, ended up being arrested, held overnight, then facing Senior Magistrate Archie Warner, charged with a mix of traffic and public order offences. Eighteen year old student Rahkai Paul of Pembroke faced three charges. Riding a bike while under the influence of alcohol, resisting arrest, and using threatening words... Read more of this article
Alleged Robbers Out On Bail
After over two hours of legal wrangling, Ezra Ararat and Zharrin Simmons, two of the three persons who were accused of the Hermitage Road robbery are now out on bail. At the end of yesterday morning’s [Sept.22] bail hearing before Senior Magistrate Archie Warner, lawyer Charles Richardson arguing for Ezra Ararat, and lawyer Marc Pettingill arguing... Read more of this article
American Tourist Fined $1,000 For Marijuana
In Magistrates Court this morning [Sept.22], 35-year-old American tourist Gabriel Rivera pleaded guilty to possession of 6.0 grams of cannabis. The DPP’s evidence was that on the afternoon of 21 September 2011, Bermuda Customs officers working with a canine unit for interdicting illegal drugs had been attracted to cabin 9073 on board the cruise-ship... Read more of this article
Trio Of Alleged Robbers Appear In Court
Currently held on remand, after being charged with a taking part in a robbery on Hermitage Road in Devonshire, Zharrin Simmons, Ezra Williams, and Ezra Ararat appeared in Magistrates Court yesterday morning [Sept.21] for a scheduled bail hearing. After a long and sometimes heated series of exchanges between the DPP’s Prosecutor and counsel for... Read more of this article
Sixteen Month Sentence For Insurance Fraud
The 37-year-old Sri Lankan accountant and ex-HWP employee, Ms Chandima Gangula Arachige, who was convicted five counts of defrauding BF&M Insurance Co Ltd of a total $76,297 and of attempts to fraudulently obtain another $13,000 from BF&M; was this morning [Sept.21] sentenced to a total of sixteen months in prison. Before passing sentence,... Read more of this article
Convicted Stalker Jailed For Two Years
This morning [Sept.21] Magistrate Archie Warner sent 23-year-old Jay Cody Steede of Sandys parish to prison for two years. Steede had earlier been found guilty on two counts of prowling, one count of stalking, and one of intruding on the privacy of a female. The Court heard that Steede first approached the female while she was sitting in a car, and... Read more of this article
Two Men Charged: Break-in With Fake Gun
In Magistrate’s Court this morning [Sept.20], two 22-year-old Southampton men were charged with trespassing and breaking into the Southampton residence of a female in the early hours of the morning of 17th September 2011. The allegation laid out by the charge was that the the two – O’Brien Gibbons and Sean Evans – had an imitation... Read more of this article
Man Charged: Stealing From Nursery School
In Magistrates Court this morning [Sept.19], 53-year-old Warwick resident Richard Allen successfully argued against Magistrate Warner’s decision to remand him into custody until a 5th December trial on a charge of stealing $4,750 from Treetops Nursery in Paget. Mr Allen had been charged with trespass and stealing $4,750 in cash from the Treetops... Read more of this article
Woman Pleads Guilty: Insurance Fraud
In Magistrates Court this morning [Sept.19], 37-year-old Sri Lankan national Ms Chandima Gangula Arachchige pleaded guilty to a charge of defrauding BF&M Insurance of $7,884. At the time of the offence, on 20 August 2010, Ms Gangula Arachchige was employed by the HWP group of companies. She had submitted a request for re-payment of medical expenses... Read more of this article
