Dec 18, 2020
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) A U.S. college student and her boyfriend have been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman Islands for violating strict COVID-19 measures following a recent ruling that will be appealed, their attorney said Thursday.
Skylar Mack, 18, of Georgia, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, of the Cayman Islands, have been in prison since Tuesday, when the ruling was issued. They had both pleaded guilty, but their attorney, Jonathon Hughes, said he will argue for a less severe sentence next week.
“They’re two young people who have never been in trouble before,” he said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “This is the first time they’ve had interaction with police, the courts, prison.” Mack, who is enrolled as a pre-med student at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, arrived in the Cayman Islands on Nov. 27 and was supposed to undergo a two-week quarantine as mandated by the government, which electronically tracks anyone who arri
2020/12/18 00:57 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) A U.S. college student and her boyfriend have been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman Islands for violating strict COVID-19 measures following a recent ruling that will be appealed, their attorney said Thursday. Skylar Mack, 18, of Georgia, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, of the Cayman Islands, have been in prison since Tuesday, when the ruling was issued. They had both pleaded guilty, but their attorney, Jonathon Hughes, said he will argue for a less severe sentence next week. “They’re two young people who have never been in trouble before,” he said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “This is the first time they’ve had interaction with police, the courts, prison.”
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A Loganville teenager who violated strict COVID-19 quarantine rules in the Cayman Islands was sentenced to four months in prison. (Shutterstock / KaZaj5)
LOGANVILLE, GA A Loganville teenager and her boyfriend have both been sentenced to four months in prison after violating strict COVID quarantine requirements in the Cayman Islands.
Skylar Mack, 18, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, of the Cayman Islands, were taken to prison Tuesday after the country s top prosecutor appealed their original, more lenient sentence of $2,600 and 40 hours each of community service, reported People magazine.
Mack arrived in the Caymans on Nov. 27 and was required by law to have stayed in quarantine for at least 14 days. Instead, she removed her tracking bracelet and left her residence two days later to watch her boyfriend, Ramgeet, compete in a Jet-Ski event.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A U.S. college student and her boyfriend have been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman Islands for violating strict COVID-19 measures following a recent ruling that will be appealed, their attorney said Thursday.
Skylar Mack, 18, of Georgia, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, of the Cayman Islands, have been in prison since Tuesday, when the ruling was issued. They had both pleaded guilty, but their attorney, Jonathon Hughes, said he will argue for a less severe sentence next week.