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
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.
A pharmacist was on Monday granted $450 000 bail following a short stint on remand at Dodds in connection with over $2 million worth of drugs.When 60-year-old Roger Arnott McNeil Maynard, of Fortesques, St Philip reappeared before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court, prosecuting officer Ralph Rollock did not renew his objection to bail but asked that strict conditions be applied, including requiring the accused to surrender his travel documents and report to a police station.Maynard is accused of importation, possession, possession with intent to supply and trafficking of cannabis on November 25, 2022. He cannot enter pleas to the indictable charges.In responding to the bail conditions, Michael Lashley K.C. who is representing Maynard in association with attorneys-at-law Simon Clarke and Sade Harris urged the court to be flexible in the reporting conditions as his client was a reputable businessman and a pharmacist with over 30 years’ experience.
Robbery is a “most vicious crime”, Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes said on Friday as he sentenced a 27-year-old man to 18 months in prison.Kemo Avery Grant of 1st Avenue Greaves Land, Black Rock, St Michael was jailed after he pleaded guilty to robbing Tamarald Haynes of a cellular phone worth $1 300 and $9 cash on October 8.Haynes, accompanied by another female, had parked her vehicle near the Catholic Church along Black Rock Main Rock when Grant approached them, pointed what appeared to be a firearm and demanded that they hand over their property.Constable Ralph Rollock said out of fear for her life the complainant handed over her belongings and Grant ran off.
When he was asked to tell the court why he should not be remanded to HMP Dodds, Anthony Junior Bishop could not come up with a suitable defence.“I trying hard to keep myself out of trouble but I can’t take getting unfair all the time,” the 23-year-old of Chapman Village, St Thomas, told Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes when he appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court.It was not enough to gain him his freedom and he was subsequently remanded to prison until October 4.Bishop was not required to plead to unlawfully wounding Tyrone Holford on September 2, 2022 with intent to maim, disfigure or disable him.