NASSAU- In a Facebook post almost a year ago, Shervandaze Smith asked for help in posting bail for a crime he planned to commit.
Smith’s cryptic post came to fruition on Saturday, October 9, when he was locked up for damaging the centuries old monument to Christopher Columbus at Government House.
On November 1, 2020, Smith wrote: “This is me, Shervandaze Smith. I’m asking for The Bahamas’ help in advance. I will need you all to sign my bail. I can’t watch my Bahamian people cry no more. God sent me to do a job. I can’t run no more; I just need The Bahamas to have my back.”
When a poster asked Smith to specify the bail sum, he replied, “I don’t know how much bail will be, but I cutting move in broad daylight.”
Smith continued, “What I’m going to do takes balls and … nobody have none in Nassau.”
Shortly after Smith’s arrest for causing $2,000 in damage to the statue with a sledgehammer, his supporters said that they would help to sign his bail.
However, these efforts proved premature because Smith didn’t get bail. Instead, he was remanded into custody for a fitness to plead evaluation.
For his part, Smith insisted that there was nothing wrong with him in the same manner that he rebuffed suggestions on Facebook last year that he needed mental help.
