Man lands in prison for stealing from roommate

Roommate troubles found their way into the court this week, having reached criminal levels.

Nimrod Walters, the defendant, a 52-year-old man, had been living in an abandoned building with another man by the name of Vincent Cuffy.

The two apparently knew each other well because of they had been living together for a while.

On March 13, while the two were at home, the allegation was that Walters approached Cuffy and threw something over his face so that he couldn’t see. Using this as an opportunity, Walters is then said to have bolted with Cuffy’s sonivox multiband radio, that he values at $55, in hand.

Cuffy went looking for the defendant but couldn’t find him. After this, he enlisted the help of the police, who were able to locate his former roommate.

The charge had to be put to Walters twice, “You did that?” Senior Magistrate Rickie Burnett asking him after the second read. “Yes please,” said the polite defendant.

“You could see how long I stay out of prison,” he told Burnett, who had been perusing his record.

“Couple months, Sir,” Walters said, in answering how long he had lived with Cuffy.

Burnett asked him to explain what went through his head. “I does do drugs,” Walters candidly admitted, “he (the roommate) does do drugs.” He said it was just a misunderstanding.

It was clarified that the drug is ‘Cocaine, sir.”

The defendant began negotiating, saying that seeing as he stayed out of prison for a while, that the magistrate could put him on a bond or fine him.

Burnett would not allow him to dictate what his punishment would be. He commented on the defendant’s record, noting that he’d “done almost everything.”

When Walters wouldn’t give up, the senior magistrate said, “I can’t charge you a fine because you are unemployed.”

Prosecutor Corlene Samuel was single minded in her suggestion, saying that the only thing to do would be a custodial sentence, noting that he “took the radio to sell to get coke.”

Walters was given a six month stay at prison, which was greeted by a stewps from the dissatisfied man, who muttered to himself on his way back to his seat.