From the Courts

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Coast Guard intercept large drug shipment
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June 11, 2004
Three Vincentians and two Dominicans were arrested when the local Coast Guard last Saturday intercepted a foreign boat with a 200HP engine at Richmond...
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Bus conductor fined for cannabis
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June 11, 2004
A bus conductor of Edinboro has until the end of June to finish paying a drug-fine imposed on him by the Serious Offences Court. Leroy Robert Antoine ...
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Gomea man on bond for drugs
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June 11, 2004
Forty-five-year-old St. Clair Williams of Gomea will have to stay out of trouble for the next six months if he is to avoid activating a bond imposed b...
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Police arrest EHSM student
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June 11, 2004
An 18-year-old third-form student of Emmanuel High School Mesopotamia (EHSM) was last Friday arrested and charged by Mesopotamia police for drug posse...
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Indian Bay man freed of cocaine charge
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June 11, 2004
Shadiq Shallow of Indian Bay walked out of the Serious Offences Court a free man on Tuesday after Chief Magistrate Simone Churaman upheld a no-case su...
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Man gets five years for burglary
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June 4, 2004
A man who burglarised a Cane Garden residence has been imprisoned by the High Court. The court imposed a five-year sentence on Julian Lewis when he pl...
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Woman and male accomplice jailed
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June 4, 2004
A woman and her male accomplice have been jailed for robbing a cashier at a store. Caswell Weekes of Richland Park and Valcina Ollivierre of Arnos Val...
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Two Arnos Vale men on robbery charge
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June 4, 2004
Two men from the Arnos Vale area are expected to reappear before Chief Magistrate Simone Churaman on June 21 this year on a joint robbery charge. Bria...
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Four convicted for burglary
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June 4, 2004
Four men from Barrouallie were convicted for burglary on Tuesday as the June sitting of the criminal assizes got underway before the High Court. Leona...
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Lokeisha’s murder case adjourned
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June 4, 2004
The start of the Lokeisha Nanton Murder trial has been delayed. The case had been listed for the June sitting of the criminal assizes, but, during the...
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Chief Magistrate commends Police
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May 28, 2004
The Narcotics Division of the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force and court prosecutor, Sergeant Adolphus Delpesche have been commended ...
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Man gets nine months for marijuana
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May 28, 2004
A man who was sentenced to six months for controlled drugs in April has been given an additional nine months on another drug charge. Patrick Nero, who...
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Two Calliaqua men convicted for ganja
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May 28, 2004
Two men from Calliaqua were convicted for possessing 21,792 grammes (48 pounds) of marijuana with intent to supply when they appeared before the Serio...
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Union Island man on unlawful possession charge
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May 28, 2004
Desmond James of Union Island is expected to reappear before the Serious Crime Court on June 24, this year, to answer a charge of unlawful possession ...
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No bomb hearing yet
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May 21, 2004
The preliminary inquiry into the planting of an explosive device in a businessman’s vehicle is yet to get off to a start. The inquiry, which was pre...
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ASP Walker says thanks
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May 21, 2004
Retired Assistant Superintendent of Police, Vincent Walker has expressed deep gratitude to Almighty God, his wife and colleagues for guidance and prot...
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3 for attempted murder trial
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May 21, 2004
The Serious OffenceSS Court last week committed a Vincentian labourer, an Indian cook and a Trinidadian technician to stand trial for allegedly attemp...
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Five murder accused to know fate soon
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May 21, 2004
Five young men from the Rillan Hill and Chauncey areas will have to wait until June 7, to know whether they will be committed to stand trial for murde...
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Top CID officers retire from force
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May 21, 2004
Scores of police officers and civilians gathered at the main office of the Criminal Investigations Department last Friday night to pay tribute to two ...
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Man on gun charge
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May 14, 2004
Police have arrested and charged an elderly man with firearm and ammunition offences. Sixty-three year-old Clive Lewis, a truck driver of Calder, was ...
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Guard facing charge
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May 14, 2004
A thirty-one year-old security guard of Bequia was hauled before the Serious Offences Court on mainland, St. Vincent on Monday to answer a charge of b...
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Youngster on bail for burglary
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May 14, 2004
Twenty-one year-old Nigel Jones of Frenches has been charged for burglarising a business place at Arnos Vale. Jones is accused of entering D & J Renta...
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St. Lucian sentenced to jail for marijuana
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May 14, 2004
Yet another St. Lucian drug trader has been committed to a St. Vincent prison. Last Monday, twenty-two year old Sedric Constantine of Dadeth, St. Luci...
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School teacher on wounding charge
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May 14, 2004
Twenty-three year-old Junior Jack of Lodge Village appeared before the Serious Offences Court on a wounding charge on Monday. Jack, a teacher at the S...
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Woman caught with cocaine inside her body
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May 7, 2004
Forty-five-year-old Catherine Richardson of Murray’s Village has been jailed for eight months. She was hauled before the Serious Offences Court for ...
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British visitor freed of cocaine charge
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May 7, 2004
The Serious OffenceS Court acquitted a British visitor on Tuesday when the prosecution withdrew a cocaine charge against her. After two months on rema...
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Inquiry into attempted
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May 7, 2004
Preliminary inquiries into an aggravated burglary and attempt to murder businessman Vicky Rajani started before the Serious Offences Court Wednesday m...
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Student ordered to compensate victim
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April 30, 2004
A 15-year-old secondary school student of Paul’s Avenue has until May 14, this year, to compensate a young man he wounded on June 22, last year. The...
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Men charged for fake cash
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April 30, 2004
Mespo police last week arrested and charged two young men from the area for tendering two EC$100 notes which they knew to be counterfeit.{{more}} Trav...
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Man fined for drugs
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April 30, 2004
Forty-eight year-old Nigel Ferris of Dasent Cottage was arrested for marijuana at Bequia last Saturday, April 24, as he attempted to enter the island ...
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DPP pleased with Assizes
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April 21, 2004
Acting Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Colin Williams has expressed satisfaction with the completion of forty-four (44) of the fifty-five (55) ...
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Licks paralyze escaped prisoner
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April 21, 2004
Eighteen year old Dexter Brewster who was jailed for rape and aggravated burglary in February, was recently hospitalized in a state of paralysis from ...
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Police detain 14 DR ladies
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April 21, 2004
Fourteen females from the Dominican Republic who arrived here last month and were detained, have been released into the care of a local businessman. {...
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Barrouallie resident charged with murder
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February 11, 2014
A 48-year-old man of Barrouallie has been charged with the murder of Grafton Richardson, also of the same address.{{more}} Sydney Coombs was hauled be...