Teen assaults schoolmate
Yet another secondary school student has ended up before the law courts. This time it is a 15-year-old Alma Parris student who pleaded guilty to assaulting a schoolmate and occasioning him actual...
View Article‘Stop coming back to court’, Mascoll told
Marston Owen Mascoll was told to “take stock” of his life because he is getting older and to stop coming back to court “if you don’t like jail”. The Ashby Alley, Nelson Street, City resident was before...
View ArticleVisitors robbed at beach
On Sunday, Shain Ramon Carl Mayers robbed two visiting university students. By Wednesday, he was behind bars at HMP Dodds beginning a three-year sentence. Magistrate Graveney Bannister handed Mayers,...
View Article‘Walk away from conflict’
Drug Treatment Court Magistrate Pamela Beckles advised a young man this evening to “walk away from conflict”. The advice was given during a follow-up session for participants in the Drug Treatment...
View ArticleDad ‘sorry’
A 59-year-old father pleaded guilty today to wounding his son on Monday. Kerwyn Winston Deshong was remanded to HMP Dodds until tomorrow when he comes back to court. The Simmons Land, Fairfield, Tudor...
View ArticleTaxi driver remanded to Dodds
Despite his attorney’s best efforts this afternoon, a taxi-driver was remanded to HMP Dodds for the next four weeks. Don O’Neal Smith, 44, was before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant in the District...
View ArticleAccused man cries out for doctor
A man accused of indecently assaulting a doctor, cried out that he needed to see one this afternoon when he appeared in a Bridgetown court. Jason Jamal Newton, of West Road, Lodge Hill, St Michael...
View Article$500 fine for stolen $10 gel
Delano Romero Linton stole a $10 bottle of gel belonging to Beauty Works on Tuesday. Had he known that his fine would be 50 times this amount, the Millers Land, Chapman Lane, St Michael man might have...
View ArticleOut of work
If there are no jobs for participants after they graduate from the inaugural Drug Treatment Programme, they could easily find themselves reverting to their old ways. That was the consensus at a...
View ArticleBrothers sent to jail for burglary
Three Haynesville, St James brothers are now behind bars after they were remanded to HMP Dodds on a burglary charge yesterday afternoon. Arnold Alexandra Williams, 26, Arlond Elroy Atwell, 22, and...
View ArticleDominican woman considered a flight risk
A woman accused of stealing $36 000 has been granted $40 000 bail and will return to court in February next year. Christaline Edwina Ackie, of Lot 80 Mangrove Park, St Philip went before the District...
View ArticleRobber’s parents not to blame
The fact that Dwayne King committed six counts of aggravated robbery and burglary between December 2011 and May 2012 had nothing to do with his parenting. According to a presentencing report by...
View ArticleCorbin arrested for stealing AC units
His vehicle was parked at the back of a Pine Road, St Michael building, the keys were in the ignition and anyone would have believed Clyde Neville Corbin was there on legitimate business. Today, the...
View ArticleSaved by Abrahams
Two middle-aged men appeared before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court this morning, charged with stealing items from Massy Stores over the past few days. Noel MacDonald Carter, 62, of Lot 2 Forde’s...
View ArticlePrison bus breaks down
The District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Courts were forced to wait on prisoners this morning, after the bus in which they were travelling broke down at the nearby Supreme Court Complex on Whitepark Road, The...
View Article11 fraud charges
A Christ Church man appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court late yesterday afternoon on 11 fraud charges. Noel Lionel Taylor, 38, of Maxwell Hill, Christ Church, is accused of dishonestly...
View ArticleSix months for hitting guardman with rock
A man, who hit a security guard with a rock, has the next six months to reflect on his actions at HMP Dodds. Derrick Anderson Brathwaite, of Hall Ground, Clapham, Christ Church pleaded guilty today...
View ArticleMen deny stealing from Carter’s
Three men accused of stealing three bottles of Newmectin insecticide and a bale of Power Pak fertilizer from Carter’s General Store on November 14 have denied doing so. The items totalled $655. 04 in...
View Article$1000 or prison for unemployed man
A 59-year-old man must come up with $1 000 within the next six weeks or he will have to spend three months behind bars at HMP Dodds. Hartford Llewellyn James, of Greenidge Road, Hindsbury Road, St...
View ArticleForde sent to Dodds pending extradition to UK
Former United Kingdom-based nurse, Jason Forde, is behind bars tonight after being committed to HMP Dodds pending extradition to the UK to answer a number of sex-related charges. Magistrate Graveney...
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