Court arraignment session.

A car salesman accused of stealing nearly $58,000 from his employer will be tried in the middle of this month.

Morris Michael Botelho, of Cherry Dale, Knapton Hill, Smith's Parish, has pleaded not guilty to stealing $40,060.60 from Holmes Williams & Purvey Suzuki Centre between November 25, 1996 and February 17, 1997.

He also denied stealing a total of seven Suzuki cycles, worth more than $17,000 between January 28 and February 13, 1997.

Gregory Ryan Ashby, of Pembroke, will stand trial on April 6 for allegedly importing cannabis between February 14 and February 21, 1997.

Ashby has also denied possessing the drug and handling it with intent to supply on February 21, 1997.

Adelle Laura Roberts, of Somerset Road, Sandys Parish, will return to the Supreme Court on April 22 for her trial.

Roberts has pleaded not guilty to a single charge of causing death by dangerous driving.

Construction worker Craig Walter Astwood, 30, died as a result of a collision between his bike and a van on September 10, 1996, at the junction of South Road and Horseshoe Road in Southampton.

Roberts had her $3,500 bail extended to reappear in court for her trial.

Suspected armed robber Randolph Granville Lightbourne will have to wait until next month for his Supreme Court trial.

Lightbourne, of Devon Springs Road, Devonshire, has pleaded not guilty to an armed robbery charge, denied using a Colt .45 automatic pistol to steal $70,000 during a raid and two charges of unlawful wounding during the robbery.

Lightbourne is to stand trial on May 4.

And an American man, extradited from Florida, will have his day in court on May 18.

Colin Cave faces numerous charges of stealing from his employer -- B.V. and H, a division of the clothing store Davidsons -- and falsifying accounting records.

Cave, originally from Rochester, New York, has pleaded not guilty to 24 false accounting charges and 12 stealing charges.

The alleged offences occurred between July 25, 1995 and December 14, 1995 and totaled more than $50,000.

Accused armed robber Harron Evans was told that he will stand trial sometime after June 2.

Evans has denied any involvement in the armed robbery of a Bank of Butterfield security van on November 19, 1995.

And the trio who allegedly carried out a $38,000 bank raid also will have to wait until the summer to have their days in court.

Yusef DeSilva, Rupert Archibald and Michael Dillas have all denied any part in the armed robbery of the Bank of Bermuda's Somerset branch on April 9 of last year.

DeSilva, of Cobbs Hill Road, Warwick, and Archibald, of Rockywold Drive, Sandys, have each pleaded not guilty to threatening two bank workers with a firearm and using the weapons to carry out the robbery.

Dillas, of Stovell Bay Lane, Pembroke, has denied three charges of being an accessory and helping DeSilva and Archibald to carry out the offence.

The trio were all remanded in custody.

Suspected drugs supplier Eugene Levi Robinson, who was arrested during Operation Cleansweep last May, had his trial date fixed for May 27.

Robinson, of Bobs Valley Lane, Sandys, has pleaded not guilty to supplying "small amounts'' of cannabis on May 10 and May 11 of last year.