Magistrate Will Francis told three young men who admitted fighting outside the Ice Queen Restaurant he hoped they “learned their lesson” before giving them conditional discharges this week.

Trevor Mills, 20, of Southampton, Kevin Arorash of St. George's and Jarreau Brown-Rogers of Warwick pleaded guilty Wednesday to fighting with another man in the parking lot outside the restaurant on Sunday morning. Blake Raynor, 20, of Paget, pleaded not guilty and will go on trial on August 21.

The victim had opened his car door in the path of the men's moving car. He was dragged from his car by the men who broke his gold chain before punching and kicking him repeatedly.

Mills joined in the 4 a.m. punching and kicking fight as Police on mobile patrol arrived. Mills apologised to the court, saying he tried to break up the fight and got caught up in the action. 18-year-old Arorash claimed he had tried to stop the fight as well.

He said that like Mills, he had not been before the courts on any criminal charges. Brown-Rogers, who was 18 at the time of the fight, said a man in another vehicle took offence to him talking to a particular young lady and began the fight.

Acting Senior Magistrate Will Francis was encouraged by the court to grant the men discharges for being so young at the time of the crime.

He decided conditional discharges were in order, warning the men that he hoped they had “learned their lesson”. They were warned they would find themselves before the courts again if they were caught behaving violently in the next six months.

Police caught a local woman as she was about to inject heroin in a supermarket's bathroom last month. Staff at the Shopping Centre became suspicious of 30-year-old Kylah Stowe after she went to the restroom with items from store shelves on July 5.

Police were summoned and entered the restroom to find Stowe - who is of no fixed abode - near a sink with silver foil and drug equipment. More drug equipment was found in Stowe's cycle helmet. In later analysis by the the Government Analyst, Stowe was found to have .16 grams of crack cocaine, .036 grams of heroin.

Crown counsel Charmaine Smith said Stowe was not a stranger to the courts, with a string of drug and dishonesty charges. Magistrate Will Francis fined Stowe a total of $800 or face up to 20 days in prison for having the drugsand drug equipment.

Stowe was also fined a total of $750 for an old charge of riding an unlicensed cycle and not having insurance. If the fines are not paid she faces 40 days in prison.

A man was attacked by two men at the Windsor Garden Restaurant in Queens Street, Hamilton, at lunchtime on Tuesday.

The man, who was waiting to talk to staff at the restaurant, was taken to King Edward VII Restaurant but did not suffer serious injuries. The victim knew one of the two attackers, according to Police.

And a thief stole around $2,000 in cash from a woman's bag in a house in Texas Road, St. George's, in the early hours of Wednesday.

The bag, which also contained personal items, was in the woman's bedroom and the thief struck while the victim was sleeping.

A man in a Dockyard nightclub met with an unpleasant surprise when Police saw him with crack cocaine in a bathroom.

On June 18, Perry Simons of Sandy's was seen standing over a sink unwrapping two white rocks of crack cocaine when he noticed Police in the bathroom of the club.

“Oh f**k, Police,” he said before the drugs were seized and Simons was arrested at 12.20 p.m. In Magistrates' Court last week, the 26-year-old pleaded guilty and was fined $500 or 40 days in jail by Acting Senior Magistrate Will Francis.

A man stole $7,750 in cash and jewellery from a house to fuel his cocaine and heroin addiction.

Shawn Caisey had broken into a Smith's parish house through a bedroom window, leaving with a $250 safe with $4,000 worth of jewellery, $3,500 in cash, and personal documents inside.

He was arrested in July after his fingerprints on the window sill of the broken bedroom window linked him to the crime. In court, lawyer Leo Mills said Caisey's judgement was impaired that day due to his drug addiction.

Crown Counsel Charmaine Smith said Caisey had no previous convictions and was unemployed and living at no fixed abode. Acting Senior Magistrate William Francis remanded the man in custody for a social inquiry report and a Bermuda Referrals and Assessments report. He will return on Wednesday to be considered for drug court.

Two cruise ship visitors were hit with stiff fines after cannabis was found in their cabins last week.

Anthony Guire, 43, of the Bronx, New York and Anthony Pagano, 51, of Peerskill, New York were fined in Magistrates' Court for having 10.71 and 2.89 grams of cannabis.

The men admitted they improted the cannabis on July 28.

Pagano faced 30 days in prison if he failed to pay his $300 fine, while Guire faced 60 days in prison for non-payment of an $800 fine.

Todd Rubin of New York City arrived in Bermuda on July 24 with 8.39 grams of cannabis. He was convicted in Magistrates' Court five days later on charges he was in possession of the drug and was importing it to the Island.

The 35-year-old told Acting Senior Magistrate William Francis that he was, “guilty, sir”. Rubin was fined $700 by Mr. Francis.

A dramatic scene unfolded for Marine Police on Monday, when a man jumped into Hamilton Harbour, but refused to be saved, instead choosing to “play dead”.

The man, who was not identified by Police, jumped into the harbour at around 11.40 p.m. and immediately went underwater. Upon surfacing the man “played dead” until Marine Police arrived. The officers dragged the man out of the water by pulling him on a wire which he held onto.

The Police Media Relations Department denied that it was a case of attempted suicide. Inquiries into the incident are ongoing although the man is not expected to be charged.