Madam Justice Jacqueline Cornelius has sentenced a St Philip woman to seven years in prison for fraud. However, having already spent 580 days on remand, Rosalind Patricia Alleyne of Collington Drive, Crane now has five years and 41 days left behind bars. Alleyne was convicted of 52 charges of writing and using 26 forged cheques, […]
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Bourne slapped with hefty drug fine
After pleading guilty to four drug charges, Hallam DaCosta Bourne now has to dig deep to pay the District ‘B’ Magistrates’ Court a $5 000 fine. The 51-year-old of Montrose, Christ Church pleaded guilty to possession, possession with intent to supply, trafficking and cultivation of 1.2 kilos of cannabis. Bourne admitted to the offence when […]
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Elderly man accused of assault
An 80-year-old was one of two men who appeared before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court Thursday on separate charges of assault. John Joseph Peter Poulet, of Maresol Beach Apartments, Dover, Christ Church is accused of assaulting Anthony Whittaker on November 2. He denied the charge. With no objections from the police prosecutor Sergeant Janice Ifill, Poulet […]
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iPad costs Brathwaite three months in jail
Andre Glenroy Brathwaite of Mangrove, St Philip was recently sentenced to three months behind bars at HMP Dodds on a theft charge. The 34-year-old pleaded guilty back in September to stealing an iPad worth $1 300 on July 19, 2013, from Electric Avenue. When the matter came up before Magistrate Douglas Frederick recently, the owner […]
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Man shot in Speightstown
Police are investigating a shooting incident which occurred just before noon in Speightstown, St Peter. Lawmen say 39-year-old Ricardo Vincent Corbin of Date Tree Hill in the same parish received a gunshot wound to his left lower abdomen while at Goddings Alley around 11:55 AM. The victim was reportedly involved in an altercation with another […]
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No thief!
The last vivid memory Sharon Maycock has of her 19-year-old son is that of a young man joking and laughing about cornflakes. It was just the day before Shaquone Maycock of The City had been shot and killed in Airy Hill, St Joseph in mysterious circumstances, that mother and son had been sharing a laugh. […]
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Bloody weekend of shooting incidents
Police are investigating at least three separate shooting incidents that took place over the weekend, leaving two men dead and two nursing injuries. Thirty-three-year-old Jesse David Moore of Free Hill, Black Rock, St Michael was shot in the chest and thigh when masked gunmen opened fire at a fete at Plum Tree Road, St Stephen’s, […]
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I’m sorry
Abandoning a written speech he had prepared to deliver to the No. 2 Supreme Court Thursday, manslayer Jerrick Samuel Jerri Tudor tried to speak from the heart as he apologized for stabbing to death the mother of his child. Krystal Lovell was killed almost three years ago. Tudor, of Black Rock, St Michael, pleaded not […]
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Boyce admits to having flare gun and ammo
A St Michael man Thursday pleaded guilty in the High Court to gun and ammunition charges but will not be sentenced until later. Royston Delon Boyce, of 2nd Avenue Brighton Terrace, admitted to having possession of a flare gun and three rounds of ammunition without a valid licence on October 21, 2013. In accepting Boyce’s plea, […]
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Borman on bond for theft
A 44-year-old man was Thursday placed on a 12-month bond to keep the peace and be of good behaviour, after admitting to theft. Appearing in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court, Andy Borman, who is listed as having no fixed place of abode, pleaded guilty to stealing a cellular phone worth $60, a handbag worth $150, a […]
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No ease!
Renaldo Anderson Alleyne is “not entitled to any discounts” on the six concurrent life sentences imposed on him by Madame Justice Elneth Kentish for his role in the deaths of six young women in the September 3, 2010 Campus Trendz fire. That was one of the submissions made by Principal Crown Counsel Anthony Blackman Wednesday in […]
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$10,000 bail for truck driver
A 26-year-old truck driver will return to court in the New Year to face a wounding charge. Davye Romar Deshawn McDonald, of Cottage Retreat, St George appeared before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court Wednesday, accused of wounding Curtis Charles with intent to maim, disfigure or disable him or to do some […]
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Driver in fatal car accident says sorry
The accident that claimed the life of a 19-year-old man eight years ago has caused many a flashback for Tyrone Dacosta Cheltenham. The #27 Durham Close, Grazette, St Michael resident could not contain his emotions Wednesday afternoon as he apologized for the October 24, 2008 accident on the Cummins section of the ABC Highway that resulted […]
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Trio charged for causing a disturbance
Three young men appeared before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court Wednesday charged with causing a disturbance in St Lawrence Gap in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. They are: Ismail Mubbarak John, 24, of Church Street, Speighstown, St Peter; Floyd Anthony Lenox Ifill, 30, of Lot 28 Boscobelle, St Peter; and Ramario Ramon Leon Taitt, 18, of […]
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Police probing another sex video involving students
Police here are probing another sex video that has been making the rounds on social media involving two secondary school children. The one minute and 50 seconds tape shows a boy and girl in school uniform engaging in sexual intercourse in a small room with blue walls and a number of blue chairs. When contacted […]
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Tracked down
A GPS tracking system on a stolen phone helped police and the victim find thief Justin Wayne Jackman on Sunday. And after being caught red-handed, the 38-year-old Melbourne Apartments, Black Rock, St Michael resident pleaded guilty to stealing the cellphone valued at $900, a phone case worth $30, and $120 in cash, when he appeared in […]
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ZR driver fined for cursing police
A ZR driver who had seven prior convictions related to personal confrontations with police officers, chalked up his eighth Tuesday. Dexter David Smith, 28, of White Hall, St Thomas, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court, to using insulting language to Constable Troy Jordan while the officer was executing his […]
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Foul mouth lands man before court
An accused man who has no fixed place to call home was Tuesday given a roof over his head – at least until December 12. That’s when Corey Tull, 37, must return to the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court after undergoing observation at the Psychiatric Hospital. Tull, who admitted being treated at that mental institution previously, appeared […]
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Vendor pleads guilty to drug possession
After admitting to having cannabis on November 21, 2016, a 24-year-old vendor was Tuesday ordered by the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court to report to the Probation Department so officials there can determine if he is eligible for community service. Rico Craigg, of Edey Village, Christ Church, was released on $2,000 bail in the meantime. He was […]
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December ruling
A Bridgetown magistrate will hand down her ruling in a five-year-old unlawful and malicious wounding case on December 12. Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant Wednesday heard submissions from police prosecutor Station Sergeant Janice Ifill and the attorneys for postman Adrian Delisle Barrow, 39, of Eastlyn, St George and taxi driver Michael Smith, 70, over contrasting versions of a […]
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