So upset was Jason Errol Chapman about a man cutting the cord to his kite, that he struck the man’s vehicle, damaging it in the process.His actions will cost him just over $2 700 – the amount he has to pay in compensation to avoid going to jail.When he appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates Court on Monday, the 38-year-old resident of Block 7A, Neptune Road, Deacons Farm, St Michael, pleaded guilty to damaging a motor van belonging to John Paul Jones on January 7, 2023, without lawful excuse.In giving the facts, prosecutor Constable Ralph Rollock said the two men have a history of conflict.He said on the mentioned date, Jones and another man went to Brandons Beach, St Michael to look for a kite that had been generating noise. They eventually found it and cut its cord.Chapman, the owner of the kite, saw when Jones severed the cord. In retaliation, he struck the vehicle which Jones was driving with an object that was in his hand. After realising the van had been hit, Jones got
An alleged escapee who was on the police wanted list from October, last year, will be spending the next 28 days at Dodds Prison. Not only did Oranile Holder face a charge of escaping custody but eight other offences were read to him when he appeared in the District “A” Traffic Court last Thursday. Holder, 26, of Cumberbatch Road, Fairfield Cross Road, St Michael, was not required to plead to …
A young man facing gun and ammunition charges made an application for his matters to be fast-tracked to the High Court on his first appearance before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on Friday.“Ma’am, I can beg for a paper committal to go to the High Court? I don’t want to waste the court’s time. I am willing to plead guilty, Ma’am,” Kerrie Shaquille Thompson said to Magistrate Alison Burke.The 27-year-old labourer of Block 14 Field Place, Bayville, St Michael made the comment after the magistrate informed him that he could not plead to the indictable charge of having a firearm in his possession on December 31, 2022, without a valid licence to do so.
Public service vehicle (PSV) operator Paul Dwight Alleyne, known as ‘Bashment Monkey’, walked out of the District ‘A’ Traffic Court on Thursday free of 44 traffic offences and one criminal damage charge.When the Eckstein Village, Tudor Bridge, St Michael resident appeared before Magistrate Alison Burke, the prosecutor informed the court that two of the police officers who were warned to give evidence were not present.The prosecutor requested an adjournment, adding that one of the matters for trial dated back to 2020 and the other to 2017.After making a request to be heard, Alleyne argued that the cases were “very old”.
A 32-year-old taxi operator will spend the rest of this month on remand at Dodds in connection with several charges, including assaulting and threatening the mother of his child and assaulting a policeman.Theodore Anderson Inniss, of Herbert Gap, Codrington, St Michael, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to damaging a car belonging to Chad Ifill on December 30 last year, intending to damage such property or was reckless as to whether such property would be damaged.However, he denied that on the same day, he assaulted Khadija Ifill, the mother of his child, as well as Police Constable Trimaine Manning in the execution of his duty.