Connell on one-year bond
Floyd Ethan Connell learnt today that his flare gun should only be used when he is going fishing. His attempts to “frighten” a man he has known for over two decades with that gun landed him in the...
View ArticleDrug mule
Immigration officers today escorted a Jamaican woman out of the Oistins Magistrate's Court after she paid a $10,000 fine for smuggling six pounds of marijuana into the island. The cannabis, which had...
View ArticleAlleyne ‘on ice’ after crime spree
Acting Station Sergeant Cameron Gibbons successfully argued against bail for a 40-year-old man who allegedly committed 18 offences saying there was a need to protect society from the accused. Richard...
View ArticleFelon grabs two years in jail
HMP Dodds will be home for Dario Devon Drayton for the next two years. The 25-year-old who has no fixed place of abode was sentenced today on five counts of robbery and two counts of burglary committed...
View ArticleAlleged sex offenders remanded
Three teenagers - a 15-year-old and two 16-year-olds - were remanded into custody when they appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrate’s Court on charges under the Sexual Offences Act. Magistrate Kristie...
View ArticleFamily ties
So desperate for drugs was Ackeem Venice Jones that he broke into his grandmother's house and stole her television. But after admitting to Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant in the District A...
View ArticleLucky Newton gets an ease
Steven McDonald Newton’s cannabis usage was so regular Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant compared it to that of “being three meals a day”. However, despite admitting that he was a habitual drug user,...
View ArticleArmstrong goes home
When he was told that he would be given a three-month suspended sentence, Adrian Alexander Armstrong thought he was going to jail. A despondent-looking 40-year-old Armstrong of Mason Hall Street, St...
View ArticleKing’s streak ends
Nineteen charges, including gun, ammunition and endangering life offences, catapulted a 31-year-old into HMP Dodds for the next few weeks. Jermaine Kenneth King, of No. 274, 4th Avenue Windward...
View ArticleNoel denies making statements
The aggravated burglary trial of Corey Omar McDonald Noel continued in the No. 5 Supreme Court today. Eight witnesses have given evidence in the case in which Noel is accused of entering the home of...
View ArticleSpree ends
Crusher Site Road, St James resident Andre Shamar Freeman today revealed that he returned to his criminal ways after he lost his job at a construction site. The 31-year-old made the disclosure after he...
View ArticleYarde pays forthwith fine
A labourer had to part with $1,000 of his hard earned money today after he had a change of heart and pleaded guilty to four-year-old drug offences. The forthwith fine which was imposed by Magistrate...
View ArticleAnthony gets court’s leniency
A 50-year-old who habitually picked up bottles on the property of a Hastings, Christ Church hotel, landed in trouble with the law when he came across and assaulted a security guard. Now Rodney David...
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Student caught with drugs
Mercy pleas of a police prosecutor-turned-defence barrister are all that stand in the way of a 17-year-old high school student gaining a criminal conviction ahead of CXC certificates after fellow...
View ArticleUnsafe havens
A man and woman who are separately charged with perverting the course of justice will make their first appearance in the District 'A' Magistrate's Court tomorrow. They are 18-year-old Toshika Abika...
View Article$750 up in smoke
A St George man had to part with $750 when he appeared before the Oistins Magistrate’s Court on drug charges recently. Magistrate Elwood Watts imposed the fine on Ellerton Housing Area resident Antonio...
View Article$300 in one week or jail
A 33-year-old man has one week to pay the District ‘A’ Magistrate’s Court a $300 fine. The sentence was imposed on Damien Ricardo Wharton of No 34 Husbands Terrace, St James when he appeared before...
View ArticleTeenager stays put at Dodds
Information from an accused woman’s attorney that she had been crying since being remanded to HMP Dodds last Friday was not enough to convince Bridgetown Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant to released...
View ArticleTrio to return to court
Drug accused businessmen Arthur Charles Herbert and Christopher Glenn Rogers will make their third appearance in a Bridgetown court on March 27, 2019, while their co-accused Walter O’Neal Prescod, a...
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Bloody feud
A 27-year-old man who was at a loss for words during his bail application, limped out of the District 'A' Magistrate's Court, while a 31-year-old man blew kisses at his girlfriend as they were escorted...
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