On Wednesday November 14, 2007 Lawton Forbes of Hamilton pleaded guilty to Robbery. The offence took place on February 27, 2007 at Charlestown. The facts for the case were that MC Levon Tross the owner of A-1 Office Technology Ltd. located in the Hunkins Plaza on Main Street. He arrived at his business place at about 8.15pm and stayed until 11:15pm.
He locked his business and walked to the opposite side of the road by the Wesleyan Holiness Church where his vehicle was parked. When he was about to enter the vehicle he heard a voice say: “Don’t move.” This was repeated several times. He looked over his shoulder and saw a gun pointing at him and he became very scared.
Someone was standing about 3 to 4 feet out of his arm’s reach. The person said, “Boy come, ah got him.” He said this about four times and a second person came from behind the church and pointed a gun, held in both hands, at him. He said the second person went behind him and the first person searched him and took his wallet containing a Scotia master card, a Royal Bank of Canada gold master card, EC($250.00) and seventy Canadian dollars. Forbes was sentenced to seven (7) years hard labour. This sentence will run concurrent to the sentence of 5 years he received earlier.
Trevis Brazier of Government Road was charged with two counts of shooting with intent, which occurred on January 1, 2007. He elected to represent himself and pleaded not guilty. Crown Counsel Ms. Bullen prosecuted the case. The prosecution called witnesses Jamal Webbe, Danruice Brookes, Franklin Webbe, Terrence Joshua, Leon Lake, Leon Michael and Eldrin Dickerson.
The main witness in the case was Franklyn Webbe. He said he knows the accused and saw him with the gun. He described the gun as the same length as those carried by police officers. He told the court the accused was about 2 feet from him when he realized he had the gun. He said “Appley” as he knows the accused, fired a shot into the air. He said Jamal and Pauley ran and the accused followed them through an alley by Slack and fired another shot pointing the gun in their direction.
He said the accused was about 15 feet from them was he fired the gun. He said he ran behind them into the alley and met up with the accused and the accused asked if he was looking for him. He said the accused still had the gun. Danruice, Jamal and Terrence said they heard the shots.
Trevis Brazier chose not to take the stand and did not call any witness on his behalf. He was found guilty. He pleaded for leniency saying that he is in the process of changing his life. He was sentenced to 4 years hard labour.
A case of incest and unlawful carnal knowledge was also before the court on Tuesday November 20, 2007. The Director of Public Prosecution Ms P. Hendrickson prosecuted the case. Dr. Henry Brown appeared for the accused. After hearing evidence from five prosecution witnesses, the accused and a visit to the area where the incident is alleged to have occurred the jury deliberated and returned a verdict of not guilty on the charge of incest and was hung on the charge of unlawful carnal knowledge.
At the Charlestown Magistrate Court on November 20, 2007 Eddison Jones of Hermitage appeared to answer to charges of possession of controlled drugs and possession with intent to supply controlled drugs. Mr. C. Hamilton represented him. He pleaded guilty to the charge of possession of controlled drug. The charges were brought against the defendant after police officers executed a search warrant on his premises on October 22, 2007.
Vegetable material suspected to be cannabis was found in different areas of the house. The material was weight and tested with a total weight in excess of 5 lbs with a street value of EC$38,400.00. The defendant was fined $20,000.00 to be paid in six months or serve 18 months in prison.
Kyle Sutton of Butlers appeared to answer a charge of larceny. The charge was brought against the defendant after investigation into a report made by Myron Jeffers of New Castle. Mr Jeffers alleged that someone stole a battery from one of his vehicles which was parked at his business place at Cades Bay between November 4-5, 2007. He alleged that he saw and spoke to the defendant the night before at his business place who told him his car had broken down and he was waiting for someone to pull it.
He gave the defendant a piece of canvas. When he returned the following morning one of his batteries was missing. On November 8, 2007 officers spoke to the defendant who replied, “Officer, de man lend me de battery.” The battery was recovered from the defendant’s car. He was convicted and fined $2500.00 to be paid in three months or three months in prison.
Terrence Flemming of Cotton Ground appeared to answer a charged of Battery. The incident alleged to have occurred at Cotton Ground on Tuesday October 30, 2007. It was alleged that the virtual complaint Glery Weekes who is employed by Karafi & Son’ went to work at the road expansion project at Cotton Ground. When he arrived at the work site the defendant Terrence Flemming saw him. He defendant approached him and said, “Wha you a do over Cotton Ground, you and Cotton Ground ain’t gat beef.” The virtual complaint walk towards the company pickup and the defendant followed him. An argument developed and the defendant slapped the virtual complaint. The defendant then grabbed him by the throat with his hands causing his to fall down. The defendant stated to kicked a stamping his over his body. The virtual complaint then made a report to the Cotton Police Station. When the Police put the report the defendant he replied that the virtual complaint threatened to shoot him. He was convicted and fined $2000.00EC to be paid in 6 months of six months imprison.
