On Tuesday October 2, 2007 the following matters were heard at the District “C” Magistrate Court presided over by Magistrate Yasmine Clarke.
Glenroy Gilbert of Bath Village was charged with unlawful possession. The charge was brought against him after he was found at 1:55 a.m. on September 12, 2007 with a cardboard box containing five (5) cartons of cigarette and a case of sardines. When questioned by the officer he said he found them. He pleaded guilty and was fined $1000.00 to be paid in 4 months or 3 months’ imprisonment.
Kaddish David of Cotton Ground was charged with possession of controlled drugs. On July 29, 2007 at about 2:25 a.m. members of the Task Force who were on duty at Stoney Grove in the Cultural Village approached the defendant and told him he was suspected of having controlled drugs in his possession. The officers informed his that they would search him.
Before they could search him he took out a transparent plastic bag with vegetable material and dropped it on the ground. When one of the officers confronted the defendant he replied, “Wha u no teck nothing off a me.”
The plastic containing the vegetable material was taken into police custody and later shown to the court. He pleaded guilty and was fined $1000.00 to be paid in three months or serve three months in prison.
Alexton Woolward of New Guinea, St. Kitts was charged with possession of controlled drugs. He pleaded guilty. On Monday August 6, 2007 the defendant was at Crosses Alley.
Officers of the Task Force Unit on patrol in that area saw the defendant with a white hand-rolled cigarette. They approached him and told him he was suspected of having controlled drugs in his possession and took the hand-rolled cigarette from him. He was arrested. He was fined $800.00 to be paid in 3 months or 3 months imprisonment.
Shaingua Carey, Kimoyah Clarke of Lime Kiln, St. Kitts and Sameka Reid of Newcastle were arrested and charged for malicious damage to a glass showcase at Price Busters in Stoney Grove on September 29, 2007.
They were also charged for disorderly conduct by fighting. The three offenders were granted bail in the sum of $6000.00 with two sureties for their appearance at the Charlestown Magistrate Court on October 2, 2007.
On Thursday September 27, 2007 the preliminary inquiry of Sean Brown of Cotton Ground who was charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on Gerald Benjamin was heard at the Charlestown Magistrate Court and he was committed to stand trial at the November Assizes.
