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A high-speed chase through Hamilton and subsequent fight with officers resulted in fines for a Devonshire man.
Craig Burchall, 22, pleaded guilty at Magistrates’ Court to charges of driving while impaired and violently resisting arrest following an i...
DATE: Jun 28, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man who crashed an unlicensed and uninsured motorcycle into a police car while drunk has been banned from the road.
Dominique Daniels, 20, from Pembroke, pleaded guilty to driving on Court Street while impaired by alcohol following a collision on S...
DATE: Jun 28, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man who provides soup for the hungry said he won’t be able to deliver it now he’s lost his licence due to drunk driving.
David O’Brien pleaded with Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner to let him keep a licence for an auxiliary cycle so he can contin...
DATE: Jun 27, 2012
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A taxi driver accused of wearing “improper” clothing while on the job saw his case thrown out by a magistrate.
Clyde Holder, 55, faced a charge at Magistrates’ Court of being improperly dressed. According to prosecutor Carrington Mahoney, the only in...
DATE: Jun 27, 2012
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A con man who promised to paint victims’ roofs before disappearing with their cash has been jailed.
Anthony Dyer, 46, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to three counts of obtaining cash through deception in incidents earlier this year.
Crown couns...
DATE: Jun 27, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man who threatened officers with a metal pipe outside Magistrates’ Court has been convicted of multiple charges, including having an offensive weapon.
Allan Robinson, 52, pleaded not guilty at an earlier hearing to charges of threatening behaviour,...
DATE: Jun 27, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A 35-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexually exploiting a young person.
The man is accused of coercing the victim, who is now nine years old, to touch his genitals on two separate incidents between January 2010 and December 2011.
Th...
DATE: Jun 27, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man was fined $400 after police caught him with a small glass bottle that had been refashioned into a pipe.
Shaun Hunt, of Midland Heights, Hamilton, pleaded guilty to possessing drug equipment.
Prosecutor Carrington Mahoney told Magistrates’ Cour...
DATE: Jun 27, 2012
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Court
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A heroin addict who smuggled $1.4 million worth of the drug into Bermuda said getting caught turned out to be a "divine intervention" that steered his life back onto the right course.
Shannon Forth was jailed for eight years yesterday by Puisne Judge...
DATE: Jun 26, 2012
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A saleswoman who gave a customer an unauthorised discount was given a conditional discharge for the offence.
Lakeisha Simmons, 37, was fired from her job at the Dollar Depot in Hamilton Parish as a result, Magistrates’ Court heard.
Crown counsel Nico...
DATE: Jun 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
