Nassau, BAHAMAS- Police are investigating the murder of a man who was found in a parked car off Marshall Road on Monday.
Police said they went to the scene around 6am after receiving reports of a dead man inside a the passenger seat of a parked car on Comarcho Close.
The victim, a 42-year-old of Fernander Close, had serious head injuries.
Anyone with information should contact CrimeStoppers at 328-8477.
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Nassau, BAHAMAS- A man accused of cocaine smuggling has been jailed for entering the country illegally.
Cuban-American Carlos Delgado was jailed for three months after he admitted the offense of illegal landing.
Officers from the Royal Bahamas Defence Force stopped and searched the boat that Delgado was captaining at Prince George Wharf on July 24.
Delgado was arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking after authorities found 61 kilos of cocaine, valued at $1.2 million, onboard.
Further investigations led authorities to Bahamian national Feraud Jamaal Bain.
Both men face charges of possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply, conspiracy to possess drugs with intent to supply and conspiracy to export drugs.
Bain has been freed on $50,000 cash bail and has to wear an ankle monitor while Delgado was denied bail.
Both men will be tried on November 7 and 8.
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A woman convicted of participating in a plot to kill a witness has had her murder conspiracy conviction upheld.
However, her 35-year sentence for the crime has been quashed.
Caryn Moss played a key role in the murder of O’Neil Marshall, days before his scheduled testimony against a notorious gang leader.
Moss confessed to luring Marshall, who was in the witness protection programme, to his death.
She picked him up and then left him in a car with the inside door handles removed and the child safety locks engaged while she went to her god parents’ home.
Moss said she heard multiple gunshots while inside the house. She later walked home after collecting spent bullet casings.
Marshall’s bullet-riddled body was found in a partially burned car on May 1, 2016.
Investigators questioned Moss about the murder, as she was the last person who had phoned him.
Moss admitted that she was enlisted to set up her friend by three notorious gangsters: Ian “Irie” Porter, Ramon “Razor” Sweeting, and Jamaric “Big Meech” Green, who offered to pay her $200,000.
It’s unclear if she ever got the blood money.
Police also charged Porter, Sweeting and Green with the murder conspiracy but the charges against them were dropped before the trial. Since then, they were all murdered.
Moss claimed that she knew that if she didn’t go along with their plan, she would have been killed.
However, the Privy Council found that this did not entitle her to use the defense of duress.
Still, the country’s highest court said the coercion should have been considered in sentencing.
As a result, the Privy Council ordered the Court of Appeal to hand down a reduced sentence.
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Nassau, BAHAMAS- An entitled man who vandalized a sport utility vehicle after he was refused a ride has been jailed for nine months.
Garratt Darling, 26, of Winton Meadows, pleaded guilty to a charge of causing damage at arraignment.
The charge stems from an incident on July 31 when he poured sand into the fuel tank of his grandmother’s 2018 Chevrolet Trax.
Darling, who was unrepresented, said he damaged the vehicle because his uncle had refused to give him a ride in it.
The water company linesman asked for a chance to pay for the repairs.
However, the magistrate decided that a jail term was warranted given Darling’s history of committing similar crimes.
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Nassau, BAHAMAS- Police believe that a 16-year-old girl was the hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a pedestrian last month.
The woman was walking along Wulff Road around 12:20am on July 31 when the driver of a Honda Accord hit her and kept going. The victim died at the scene.
Acting on intelligence, police arrested the teen and her 27-year-old sister at Rupert Dean Lane.
They also found the car used in the deadly crash stashed in bushes on the same street.
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Nassau, BAHAMAS- Three Chinese men facing human trafficking charges that involved forced labour and torture have been each been granted $15,000 bail.
Prosecutors say that 30-year-old Zhao Jinbo became a victim of human trafficking after he went to work at the Bird Cay Marina Corp in The Berry Islands as an excavator operator.
From March 1, 2023 to July 19, 2023, Jinbo was allegedly forced to work overtime without compensation by his supervisors Xiang Gao, Li Qiang and Feng Gao.
The men allegedly starved and beat Jinbo and made him drink his urine after withholding his passport.
Jinbo’s relatives contacted Bahamian police and he was rescued on July 19.
Jinbo, who was in the country on a work permit, has since returned to China.
The alleged traffickers will be tagged with an ankle bracelet and are required to report to police on weekdays and keep a curfew.
They are expected to receive a voluntary bill of indictment that will send their case to the Supreme Court on October 5.
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Nassau, BAHAMAS- A 25-year-old man is behind bars after a police patrol unit allegedly caught him having sex with a 15-year-old boy.
Police officers were carrying out patrols in Palmdale around 2am on Friday, August 4 when they saw a parked car.
When the officers went to investigate, they met the suspect of Monastery Park having with the child.
The age of sexual consent for homosexuals is 18.
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Nassau, BAHAMAS – An Abaco man accused of sex crimes against two children has been granted bail.
Samuel Russell, a 55-year-old painter, is accused of indecently assaulting a nine-year-old girl and having pornographic images of a 15-year-old girl.
Police arrested Russell on August 2 while investigating the indecent assault complaint.
While in custody, the officers allegedly discovered sexually explicit videos of the teenage girl.
Russell pleaded not guilty to indecent assault and possession of child pornography at his arraignment on Friday.
He was granted $8,000 bail with one surety for each case. While on bail, Russell is banned from having any contact with his alleged victims.
Both cases will be heard on October 2.
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Nassau, BAHAMAS- A 23-year-old man who was wanted for his alleged role in a fatal shooting has been charged.
Breon McKenzie was named as a person of interest on July 14,
On Thursday he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Roberto Reckley charged with the June 23 murder of Gregory Rolle, otherwise known as Pumpkin.
The 26-year-old was weeding a lot at the juncture of Peter Street and Baillou Hill Road when he was shot multiples times.
McKenzie didn’t have to enter a plea to the charge and was denied bail.
He returns to court in October.
Nassau, BAHAMAS- The two men accused of plotting with Lindsay Shiver to kill her husband have each been released on $20,000 bail.
Shiver’s alleged lover, Terrance Bethel, and accused hitman Faron Newbold Jr, were released from the Central Police Station Thursday afternoon after signing their bail papers.
The suspects’ parents signed their bail.
Prosecutors say, while in Abaco, the trio hatched a plot to kill Shiver’s estranged husband, Robert Shiver, on July 16.
Police investigating a break-in stumbled across plan while investigating a burglary at Grabber’s Bar and Grill in Guana Cay.
They allegedly found WhatsApp messages detailing the plot in the suspect’s phone.
As a result, Bethel, Shiver and Newbold were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder on July 21.
They were remanded to prison on July 28.
However, they were granted emergency bail after the prosecution withdrew an initial objection to bail after speaking with Mr Shiver.
Meanwhile, Mrs Shiver will remain in custody until at least August 9.
She’s expected to appear in court to provide the court details of where she live in Nassau once her $100,000 cash bond is posted.
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