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A 31-year-old man denied two charges of sex assault on a woman, when he appeared in court. It is alleged that the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, committed the offences on February 14, in Pembroke and Southampton. It was further alleged i...

A man who was driving with more than four times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood was banned from the roads for 18 months yesterday. Kyle Rogers, 36, was also fined $1,000 by senior magistrate Juan Wolffe. The court heard that police were direc...

A man accused of an attempt to smuggle $9.5 million of heroin into Bermuda said he thought he was carrying gold and diamonds for men he had met in the UK. Josef Vlcek, 49, said that he did not know that drugs were hidden in his suitcases. He told t...

Three men denied charges related to bank card fraud at Magistrates’ Court this week. Tiberiu Gavrila, 44 and Radu Asavei pleaded not guilty to 15 counts of possession of fake ATM cards between January 20 and 30. Mr Gavrila, from Romania, and Mr Asave...

A man accused of trying to smuggle $9.5 million of heroin into Bermuda said he had no idea packages of the drug were hidden in his suitcase. Josef Vlcek, 49, told police in a recorded interview he had bought the bags in an East London market and had ...

A man who fell asleep at a set of traffic lights was later found to be more than three times above the drink driving limit, Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday. Police investigated after they saw a car stationary at lights on Court Street that had not...

The alleged importer of $9.5 million of heroin was on edge after he was detained at the airport, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. Susie Williams-Stovell, a customs officer, told the court that Josef Vlcek, then 47, “was sweating and appeared nervo...

The alleged importer of $9.5 million of heroin was caught after customs officials spotted a bulge and traces of glue in the lining of one of his suitcases, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. Takiyah Simpson, for the Crown, told the court that Josef V...

A repeat offender was jailed for six months yesterday after he admitted eight traffic offences in less than a month. Cavin Francis, 22, of no fixed abode, was also fined a total of $5,050 and banned from the roads for seven years. The sentence follow...

A 55-year-old man denied threatening to kill someone in a message to a government MP. Perry Smith was accused of causing Michael Scott, the Sandys North politician, to receive a written threat towards “a person” on or about August 10, 2018. He pleade...