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A man who threatened his former girlfriend with a knife in a grocery store parking lot was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.
Kishuani Wolffe, 24, of Dundonald Street, Pembroke, was found guilty of having a bladed weapon in a public place and crim...
DATE: Dec 28, 2010
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A social smoker who admitted possessing 3.4 grams of cannabis was handed a conditional discharge in Magistrates' Court yesterday.
Aaron Trott, of Devonshire, told the court he started smoking weed from a young age and felt it wasn't really “that big...
DATE: Dec 24, 2010
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Charges against one of six people found in a hotel room with cannabis and cocaine were dismissed as the Crown finished its case.
Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo yesterday acquitted 16-year-old Sadune Raynor, who had been charged with two counts of possess...
DATE: Dec 23, 2010
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A homeless man will be spending Christmas behind bars after admitting to possessing drug equipment during an appearance in Magistrates’ Court.
Keith Peniston, 53, pleaded guilty to having a glass bottle on two occassions that had been converted into...
DATE: Dec 22, 2010
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A teenager was yesterday charged with having unlawful carnal knowledge of a minor.
The incident allegedly happened between April 1 and April 3 this year in Sandys.
Neither the 13-year-old female victim nor the defendant can be identified for legal r...
DATE: Dec 22, 2010
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A teenager who was tasered by police after threatening to shoot officers after a drunken night out will face sentencing in Magistrates' Court in February.
Jahdeko Fubler, 18, of Warwick, pleaded guilty to violently resisting arrest and using threate...
DATE: Dec 21, 2010
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Two brothers, who were arrested over the weekend, have admitted to fighting outside a nightclub in Devonshire.
Police said they were called to the brawl near the Gravity Nightclub on Saturday around 3am. Officers arrived to find the fight spilling ou...
DATE: Dec 21, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A fifth man to admit his role in a violent home invasion was today jailed for two years.
Collin Hendrickson, 19, broke into the Pembroke residence of Jahdean Gibbons last June, along with four others.
Supreme Court heard during previous proceedings h...
DATE: Dec 20, 2010
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A man involved in the importation of more than $850,000 worth of cannabis was this morning jailed for seven years.
Kenneth Butterfield, 33, told Supreme Court he got embroiled in the scheme amid financial worries over his sick child.
“I did it for th...
DATE: Dec 20, 2010
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A judge advised taxi drivers who fear being attacked to carry “a good piece of wood” or a bat, but not a knife or gun in their cab.
Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves made the comments before freeing a taxi driver from jail seven months into his three-yea...
DATE: Dec 20, 2010
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