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Three and a half years for gun, ammo charge
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March 23, 2007
Sheon Veira Anderson is into the fourth day of his three-and-a-half year prison sentence for gun and ammunition possession. Anderson, 37, a mechanic o...
Security Guard steals US$13,000
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March 23, 2007
Quincy Butler will have to wait three years before he can walk the streets as a free man again. Butler, a 22-year-old Security Guard of McKies Hill wa...
Burglary spree: Three men arrested
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March 23, 2007
Head of the Criminal Investigations Department Assistant Superintendent of Police Eckron Lockhart, is encouraging persons around the Sion Hill and Can...
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March 16, 2007
The Ottley Hall Commission of Inquiry, which was set to resume yesterday Thursday 15th March, has been rescheduled to May 2, 2007. The postponement is...
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March 16, 2007
Chief Magistrate Simone Churaman ordered a fisherman, who claims that he only uses cocaine to go diving, to pay $125 on Monday at the Serious Offences...
Bajan man caught with BDS$72,600 at airport
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March 16, 2007
The long arms of the law in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are being extended and law enforcement officers are cracking down on money laundering. Earl...
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March 16, 2007
Keon Jack now has ample time to reflect on his mistake of breaching the law. On Monday March 12th at the Serious Offences Court, the 30 year-old Layou...
Lovelace to wait for second shot
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March 16, 2007
Patrick Lovelace's second shot at avoiding a murder conviction has been delayed by at least another three months. Lovelace was convicted in December, ...
Crosvenor pleads guilty to cannabis possession
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March 8, 2007
Forty- four year-old Kittitan National, Ian Crosvenor had a double whammy on Monday when he was charged with having one cannabis cigarette in his poss...
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March 8, 2007
A 30-foot fibre glass speedboat with two 250hp engines belonging to Vaughn Carter of Chateaubelair was stolen while docked in the Chateaubelair Bay. T...
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March 8, 2007
Up to press time on Tuesday no one had been arrested for the shooting death of Sean Baptiste, a 22 year-old labourer of Ottley Hall. Baptiste was the ...
Gun cleaner turns thief
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March 8, 2007
Just over a month ago after being charged with having one rock of cocaine in his possession and being “planned” with a cutlass after offering to p...
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March 8, 2007
Osbourne Codougan, 24, of Sion Hill has until April 5, to come up with $900 or he will go to jail for six weeks. He pled guilty at the Serious Offence...
Three and half years for gun, ammo charge
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March 8, 2007
When Preben Lyttle stares into his future, three and a half years in prison for gun and ammunition possession stares back at him. The 21-year-old, Old...
Women keep paying men’s fines in court
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March 8, 2007
Chief Magistrate at the Serious Offences Court, Simone Churaman, has found it rather amusing that every time a young man is charged, a woman has to co...
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March 2, 2007
A Rillan Hill teenager is now behind bars for the next 24 months after being found guilty of having a Desert Eagle nine-millimeter pistol and 18 round...
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March 2, 2007
An argument with his ex-girlfriend over the cutting of their child’s hair, resulted in Mitchfield Simmons finding himself on the wrong side of the l...
Two men remanded on murder charge
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March 2, 2007
Two young men were remanded to Her Majesty’s Prison on Monday after appearing at the Serious Offences Court on Monday to answer a murder charge. As ...
Accused burglars’ case goes to High Court
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February 23, 2007
Samuel Browne, an 18-year-old labourer of Mesopotamia and Basheba Browne, 26 of New Prospect are set to go to trial in the High Court as enough eviden...
Man breaks into Tony’s Original Pizza
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February 16, 2007
To satisfy his thirst Allison Gibson broke into Tony’s Original Pizza uptown and stole 13 Hairoun beers and 24 bottles of Guinness stout. The 27-yea...
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February 16, 2007
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is very much aware of the circumstances involving the seizure of US$103,000 by their counterparts at the Customs...
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February 16, 2007
This country has recorded its first sentencing of a convicted money launderer. Business operator of Paul’s Avenue, Ricardo Dopwell was sentenced to ...
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February 16, 2007
Prosecutor Station Sergeant Nigel Butcher was highly annoyed on Wednesday at the Serious Offences Court when the defense counsel Ronald Marks requeste...
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February 9, 2007
Cuthbert Lavia, 34, labourer of Owia would have to find $500 by March 2 or spend eight weeks in jail. Lavia pleaded guilty at the Serious Offences Cou...
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February 9, 2007
For attacking a man who made sexual advances to him, Roger Providence found himself before the court. On February 3, Special Services Unit (SSU) arres...
Teenage girls plead guilty to shoplifting
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February 9, 2007
Three young ladies who pled not guilty at the Serious Offences Court last week on a number of theft charges had a sudden change of heart on Tuesday at...
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February 2, 2007
On Tuesday at the Serious Offences Court, Stubbs resident Azziah Cyrus claimed that he uses marijuana as a cure for his ailments. This however did not...
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February 2, 2007
Pat “Pato” Williams, 34, mason of Diamond has until February 30 to pay a fine of $1300 if he wants to stay out of prison. Failure to pay this fine...
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February 2, 2007
Eighteen year-old labourer, Rashaan King of Redemption Sharpes was fined $250 on Monday at the Serious Offences Court for having 98 grams of cannabis ...
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February 2, 2007
Nicholas Browne dug himself into a deep hole after pleading guilty at the Serious Offences Court to having 13 grams of cannabis in his possession on J...
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February 2, 2007
At some point in one’s lifetime one may have heard people saying, “if you do not have, do without!” It seems as if this piece of advice did not ...
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February 2, 2007
Prosecutor at the Serious Offences Court, Station Sergeant Nigel Butcher was caught in a state of amazement when on Tuesday he witnessed one man being...
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February 2, 2007
One Secondary School student is out on bail while another man was remanded to Her Majesty’s Prisons on Monday at the Serious Offences Court after th...
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January 26, 2007
Michael Antoine had to fork up $250 at the Serious Offences Court on Monday to avoid going to jail for 21 days. Antoine, 34, of Lauders was charged fo...