Embattled prison officer released on bail
Prison officer Shawn McDonald Herbert has been released from jail on $3,000 bail. Herbert, who pleaded guilty last Friday to three offences under the Prisons Act, re-appeared before acting Chief...
View ArticleSt Joseph man sent up to Dodds
A 21-year-old St Joseph resident was remanded into custody Friday on several serious offences, including a firearm charge. Shaquille Ricardo Dawson of Branchbury #2 was arrested and charged on...
View ArticleTeens accused of causing a fracas aboard minibus
A 16-year-old boy, who was involved in a recent fracas aboard a minibus, appeared before a Bridgetown magistrate Friday. Donte Tyrelle Alleyne, of 20E Down Hill Drive, Eden Lodge, St Michael is...
View ArticleMultiple break-ins
A St Andrew man today began an 18-month prison term at HMP Dodds after pleading guilty to robbing the Rubis gas station on Bay Street, St Michael between May 2 and 3 this year. However, Corey Junior...
View ArticleDrug accused refuses to get help
A 22-year-old Christ Church man has been placed on a six months bond after refusing court-assisted rehabilitation for his drug addiction. Jamar Kemar Waldron of Hannays, was arrested and charged on...
View ArticleTaylor gets bail on sexual assault charge
A 30-year-old Christ Church man was today released on $5,000 bail. Rasheed Andre Ricardo Taylor of Edey Village, is charged with assaulting a woman on September 21 with intent to rape. Taylor, who was...
View ArticleHalls Road resident fails drug programme
Magistrate Douglas Frederick today chastised a 41-year-old man for wasting resources after he failed to complete his drug rehabilitation programme. Philip Jones Jr of School Lane, Halls Road, St...
View ArticleDenny walks free of charge
A 51-year-old man was today freed of assault charges when he appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court. Alvin Roosevelt Denny of St Barnabas Heights, St Michael was charged with unlawfully...
View ArticleHoly crime
An accused man today pleaded guilty to burglarizing a church. Rodrick Willrow Beckles, who is currently on remand at HMP Dodds, admitted before Justice Michelle Weekes in the No 2 Supreme Court, to...
View ArticleBrathwaite caught with cocaine apparatus
A 43-year-old Christ Church man has to find $750 in six weeks or, alternatively, spend nine months behind bars at HMP Dodds. David Austin Brathwaite of Gibbons Boggs admitted to possession of an...
View ArticleTeen found with pipe gun
A St Michael teen today pleaded guilty in the High Court to a gun charge. Dishon Romario Bullen, 17, of Stratford Hill, The Pine, admitted to possession of a pipe gun without a valid licence on...
View ArticleHollingsworth denies attacking police officer
A 34-year-old Christ Church man today told the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court he was not guilty of committing several offences against a police officer. Kamal Tito Jermaine Hollingsworth of 2nd...
View ArticleTwo men granted bail on charges of assault
Two Christ Church men, who are facing separate assault charges, have been granted bail in the District ‘B’ Magistrates’ Court. Twenty-one-year-old Cashion Romario Inniss of Maxwell Hill and 27-year-old...
View ArticleBig haul
Two St Michael men, charged with possession of $192 800 worth of cannabis, were today handed different sentences when they appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court. Subhoza Andre Ferguson, 34,...
View ArticleHusband apologizes
Magistrate Douglas Frederick on Thursday ordered a 41-year-old Guyanese man to undergo treatment for his alcohol problem after he pleaded guilty to unlawfully assaulting his wife on September 27 and...
View ArticleNot fit for bail
Jakeel Stephenson Gittens, past actions caught up with him today. The 23-year-old, of no fixed placed of abode, is accused of unlawful possession of an apparatus intended for the misuse of cocaine....
View ArticleLight hands
Forty-eight year-old David Anthony Griffith, already serving time for a previous offence, will spend an additional 18 months behind bars. Magistrate Douglas Frederick added two nine-month prison...
View ArticleDuo jailed for handling stolen items
Two St Michael men charged with handling stolen property were today slapped with prison terms. Samuel Gardiner Johnson, 52, and Davion Reynaldo Davidson Layne, 22, both of Mason Hall Street, the City,...
View ArticleTheft accused remanded
A 53-year-old man was today remanded into custody on theft charges. Peter Samuel James, who is listed on the police charge sheet as having no fixed place of abode, pleaded not guilty to entering the...
View ArticleDifferent fates for two on assault charges
Two St Michael men appeared before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court Friday charged with separate assault offences. They are: Dwayne Ryan Omar Forde, 35, of Rock Hampton Road, Grazettes and Dario...
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