No bail for fisherman
An allegation that he committed an act of serious indecency against a 13-year-old boy has landed a fisherman on remand at Dodds. Rawle Larenzo Lavine, of Blackman Field, Pine, St Michael appeared...
View ArticleAccused jailed for big bill on stolen mobile
Former security guard Shavon Lamar Welch-Chery was back before the law court for the second time this week. Welch-Chery who gave his address as Farmers, St Thomas but on Wednesday gave it as Sugar...
View ArticleMan, child accused of killing holder remanded
One of the males allegedly responsible for the shooting death of Marlon Holder was so concerned about some personal items it lead him to make a request of the magistrate as he stood in the dock of the...
View ArticleTull steals shoes and clothes from City stores
Stealing from a number of City stores has landed a 40-year-old in jail for the next 20 months. Corey Rondell Tull, of no fixed place of abode, was sentenced today in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court...
View ArticleMan cleared in death charge
Dwayne Leroy Jones is no longer facing a manslaughter charge in connection with the death of a Valley Land, St George man. Today, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Queen’s Counsel Donna Babb-Agard...
View ArticleDrug case adjourned
A 26-year-old farmer accused of drug possession and trespassing is out on $1,500 bail. It is alleged that Theophilus Theo Holder, of Station Hill Main Road, St Michael had cannabis in his possession on...
View ArticleAccused admits damaging church property
Renison Isaiah Prince says he broke 19 windows and a plant pot at the historic St Mary’s Church because, “God tell me to do it”. That’s the explanation the 26-year-old Fairfield, Black Rock, St Michael...
View ArticleSword attacker to know his fate next week
A 49-year-old landscaper who pleaded guilty to wounding another man is expected to know his fate on February 13. In the meantime, David Anderson Roach, of Dayrells Road, Christ Church is on $3,000 bail...
View ArticleJamaican pleads guilty
Jamaican labourer Nigel Oraine Bailey was handed over to immigration officials today after pleading guilty to a criminal charge. Bailey, who lived at My Lord’s Hill, St Michael admitted to entering the...
View ArticleRogers and Prescod to stand trial
Businessman Chris Rogers and his co-accused Walter O’Neal Prescod will have to answer to four drugs charges before a judge and jury. Magistrate Douglas Frederick committed Rogers, a 56-year-old of #27...
View ArticleMagistrate wants to know about Greene’s life before sentencing
Eighteen-year-old Justin Shemar Greene who went on a burglary spree last month “needs saving” and is “not entitled to walk about” for the time being, Magistrate Douglas Frederick has said. The District...
View ArticleTeen ‘drops’ case against woman
Madam Justice Pamela Beckles today told a teenager his mother was acting in his best interest when she had another woman charged for serious indecency. The High Court judge gave the explanation to the...
View ArticleJustice delayed, says attorney
Queen’s Counsel Andrew Pilgrim wants to know why a bail hearing for a jailed attorney can’t get a date on the docket of the Court of Appeal. Pilgrim, who is representing Vonda Minerva Pile, who was...
View ArticleTeen murder accused remanded
Murder accused 17-year-old Tyreke Delandre Benskin has been remanded to HMP Dodds. Benskin of Promenade Road, Bush Hall, St Michael is accused of taking the life of 22-year-old Shakeem Holder, also...
View ArticleMings off the road for more than six months for traffic offences
A man who drove illegally says he was “smoking a spliff” while behind the wheel and tried to evade police accumulating several traffic offences in the process. And After spending a night on remand at...
View ArticlePinelands man on indecency charge
Society must be protected from a 54-year-old man accused of serious indecency against a child. The accused also has a warrant out for absconding court on a similar matter. Those were some of the...
View ArticleGanja grower pleads guilty
A 30-year-old man accused of cultivating marijuana was granted $2,000 bail today in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court. Randy Rico Neblett, of Storey Gap Codrington Hill, St Michael, is also accused...
View ArticleAccused say police got it wrong
Two men charged with murder today denied any involvement in the death of 38-year-old Cosmo Alonza Hinds over six years ago. In fact in an unsworn statement from the dock Jefferson Tramaine Diego...
View ArticleFemale convicts sentenced
Two female convicts will spend time in jail for aggravated burglary after their wish to financially compensate their elderly victims for the 2010 crime was today denied by the High Court. “You have...
View ArticleSex worker sentenced to 12 years for manslaughter
Jamaican Tedesha AnnJuliet Hayles who admitted to killing fellow sex worker Shockaya Boyd has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. However, the manslayer has just over three years left to serve on...
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