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Man denies stealing safes in Eleuthera break-ins

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Man denies stealing safes in Eleuthera break-ins

After two safe thefts on Eleuthera, police say they have the culprit.

Prosecutors say Robertson Baptiste, 31, of Palmetto Point, broke into Bertand Kan’s home between May 4 and 5 and stole a wall safe, worth $3,000.

Additionally, Baptiste allegedly broke into the home on David Solomon between April 16 and 23 and stole a safe, valued at $800.

Baptiste denied charges of house breaking and stealing at an arraignment before Magistrate Ambrose Armbrister.

He’s been denied bail because the magistrate lacks the authority to consider bail for the offenses.

Baptiste did not have a lawyer. He returns to court on June 2 for a trial date.

Woman threatened to infect cops with coronavirus, prosecutors say

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Woman threatened to infect cops with coronavirus, prosecutors say

Nassau-A woman allegedly spat at police officers and threatened to infect them with the coronavirus.

Prosecutors say Evette Wilson, 27, said she had the deadly disease during an encounter with police around 1am on May 13.

Officers on patrol allegedly saw Wilson lying on Malcom Road.

So, they stopped to carry out a welfare check.

That’s when Wilson allegedly spat at the officers and said that she would give them the coronavirus.

Wilson does not have the highly contagious disease.

The officers arrested Wilson and charged her with causing public terror and breaking the coronavirus curfew.

However, Wilson denied making the terroristic threat at her arraignment before Deputy Chief Magistrate Andrew Forbes.

She admitted breaking the curfew and was fined $300. Failure to pay will result in a two-month-long prison sentence.

Wilson’s trial for the coronavirus threat begins on July 14.

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Court grants emergency eviction

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Court grants emergency eviction

Nassau-A magistrate on Wednesday granted an emergency eviction in the interest of public health.

Deputy Chief Magistrate Andrew Forbes gave Edith Peet until 6pm today to vacate a one-bedroom that she and four others have illegally occupied since February.

The Chief Justice ordered the suspension of new trials during the coronavirus pandemic.

However, attorney Ian Cargill obtained an emergency hearing because sewer problems at the unit on Carmichael Road pose a danger to public health.

The eviction will allow property manager Denise Bethel to carry out needed repairs to the plumbing system.

Inspectors from the Department of Environmental Health certified the problem had to be corrected immediately, the court heard.

In her evidence, Bethel said numerous plumbers said the sewer problems originated in Peet’s unit.

She said plumbers needed to jackhammer the floor.


Bethel gave Peet an eviction letter in January, a month before her rental contract expired.

Additionally, Bethel said that Peet was $2,800 in arrears.

Bethel said she allowed Peet and her disabled son to live in the small space.

However, Bethel said Peet later moved in another son and two grandchildren without her permission.

What’s more, Peet’s second son has allegedly terrorised and threatened other tenants.

In addition to approving the eviction, Forbes ordered Peet to pay the $2,800 overdue rent plus $500 in legal costs.

Peet received notice of the eviction hearing but didn’t appear.

Man fined $400 for boat trip during coronavirus travel ban

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Man fined $400 for boat trip during coronavirus travel ban

Nassau-A magistrate fined a man $400 for defying a travel ban imposed by the national curfew.

Police arrested Dion Miller, 35, at Jaws Beach around 1:30pm on May 8.

Despite a ban on inter-island travel to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Miller traveled from North Andros to New Providence on a Boston Whaler.

Miller, who is originally from Freeport, Grand Bahama, said that he needed medical treatment for an injured leg.

Miller pleaded guilty to breaking the curfew at his arraignment before Deputy Chief Magistrate Andrew Forbes.

He said assumed the restrictions only applied to international travel.

Nevertheless, Miller claimed that staff at the island’s clinic wrote letters seeking approval for his trip.

After he got no response, Miller still took the trip.

The magistrate told Miller that he had made a “perilous journey across the Tongue of the Ocean in a small boat.”

Had the boat capsized, Forbes said Miller would have had a bigger problem than his injured leg.

Forbes told Miller he should have contacted one of the island’s administrators to confirm whether it was “feasible to travel”.

He told Miller his decision to break the curfew was an expensive one. He ordered Miller to pay a $400 fine to avoid three months in prison.

Earlier this month, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis eased coronavirus travel restrictions on Ragged Island, Rum Cay, Mayaguana, Inagua, Crooked Island, Acklins and Long Cay. At the time, he said New Providence residents on those islands could return to the capital.

Curfew violators face a maximum of 18 months in prison and fined up to $10,000.

Man convicted of manslaughter wins retrial

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Man convicted of manslaughter wins retrial

Nassau-A man convicted of manslaughter won a new trial on appeal because jurors didn’t hear from a key witness.

In a ruling Tuesday, Justice of Appeal Milton Evans and two other judges threw out Xavient Taylor’s conviction for killing James Gardiner in a fight.

Prosecutors tried Taylor for murder. However, jurors convicted him of manslaughter i and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The men clashed outside Tiffany Knowles’ home in Montell Heights on November 2, 2009.

Gardiner was dating Knowles, who has a daughter with Taylor.

At trial, Taylor said he stabbed Gardiner in self-defence.

On the other hand, prosecutors said that it was murder.

However, Vanessa Cooper, who told police that she saw Taylor leave the home with a knife didn’t testify at Taylor’s trial.

Prosecutors said they could not find her. So, they asked the court to admit her statement to police into evidence.

Initially, the trial judge ruled against prosecutors because she found a policeman did not take all the necessary measures to locate Cooper.

Yet, the judge reversed her decision after hearing further evidence from the same policeman. He had heard the judge gave her initial ruling.

Cooper showed up before the end of the trial, but prosecutors still didn’t call her to testify.

So, the jury only had her unchallenged witness statement to consider.

The Court of Appeal said that Cooper’s evidence was “crucial” to the jury deciding if Taylor was guilty.

The appellate court judges said Cooper should have been cross-examined once located, to ensure fairness.

Had this happened, the appellate court said the jury might have reached another verdict.

One dead in double shooting

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One dead in double shooting

Nassau-A man is dead and another in hospital following a shooting at the Haitian Village off Cowpen Road Tuesday night.

Police said a gunman shot two men as they sat in front of a home around 7:30pm.

One of the men died on the scene and the second man is in critical condition at hospital.

This is the third murder in a 24-hour period.

Kim Morley-Smith, 48, and Denny Rolle Jr., 24, were gunned down on May 11 in Freeport.

Families clash as brothers charged with murder

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Families clash as brothers charged with murder

Nassau-Tensions ran high on Tuesday as police charged two brothers with the fatal stabbing of school janitor Jeffrey Fowler.

Johnathon Armbrister and his younger brother Jonavan Armbrister, both 22, faced a murder charge when they appeared before Deputy Chief Magistrate Andrew Forbes.

Notwithstanding their ages, the brothers were born eight months apart.

Attorney Jomo Campbell represents the men, who were not required to enter pleas to the murder charge. They have been remanded to prison until July 30.

According to police, got into an argument that turned deadly at McQuay Street, off Nassau Street, on May 5.

Fowler died at the scene.

Relatives of the murder victim and the accused clashed outside court. They got into a shouting match and one woman had to be restrained.

 

 

Limewood Lane shooting now a double murder investigation

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Limewood Lane shooting now a double murder investigation

Freeport-A man who was shot along with Kim Morley Smith died from his injuries in hospital yesterday, police said.

The pair were shot around 3pm at Limewood Lane in Freeport Grand Bahamas.

Ms. Smith, a mother-of-seven and the widow of alleged gang leader Tony Smith, died at the scene. Denny Rolle Jr., 24, died hours later in hospital.

Police killed Mr. Smith, otherwise known as Jamaal Penn, in front of his wife and children during an alleged shootout when they storm his home in Blair Estates on May 17, 2019.

The officers wanted to quiz Mr. Smith about a murder investigation. Smith and two other men allegedly opened fire on the officers when they broke down the door to the home.

Ms. Smith was three months pregnant at the time. She claimed that an officer kicked her in the stomach and said, “You won’t bring another killer into this world.”


Police allegedly found 23 pounds of marijuana and three guns inside the home after the fatal shooting.

They charged Ms. Smith and three other adult occupants of the home with drug possession with intent to supply, possession of firearms and ammunition.

That trial was still pending before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt.

Mr. Smith was no stranger to police. Police had accused Smith, better known by his street name Fool, of multiple murders. However, prosecutors never proved those claims.

As for his widow, prosecutors had accused her of arranging the murder of Dario “China” Knowles in 2012.

Although implicated in the murder, prosecutors did not try or charge her.

A judicial official had also accused Ms. Smith of extortion.

 

Student spared prison for secret sex tape

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Student spared prison for secret sex tape

Nassau-A Doris Johnson High School student, who secretly filmed a woman having sex with another man, has avoided a prison sentence.

Trevor Dwayne Brown, 18, posted the sexually explicit video in a WhatsApp group that he created.

The sex-offender’s cruel act left his 20-year-old victim traumatized and in tears.

Despite the damage he did to her reputation, the woman begged Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt not to imprison Brown.

Brown pleaded guilty to two counts of voyeurism. He was on May 11 given a conditional discharge.

Brown can keep his clean criminal record provided he pays his victim $5,550 in compensation. Failure to pay the money will result in a 12-month prison sentence.

Brown, a twelfth-grader, illegally recorded the sex tape in March.


The young woman went to a home in Yellow Elder Gardens with Brown and several other men, the court heard.

After having a few drinks, she had sex with Brown. Then, another man bedded her.

That’s when Brown recorded them without their permission. He published their private moment a few weeks later.

In her victim impact statement, the woman told the court that she had forgiven Brown notwithstanding the hurt he had caused.

Brown faced a maximum of three years in prison for voyeurism.

He will remain in custody until his relatives pay at least $2,750 to his victim. Thereafter, they must make monthly payments of $400.

 

 

Woman murdered one year after police kill her husband

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Woman murdered one year after police kill her husband

Freeport-The widow of alleged gang leader Tony Smith was murdered Monday afternoon.

Kim Morley-Smith’s murder at Limewood Lane in Freeport took place six days before the one year anniversary of her husband’s death. What’s more, the mother-of-seven was killed the day after Mother’s Day.

Authorities responded to a shooting around 3pm. When they arrived, they met a woman dead. Emergency personnel took a male gunshot victim to hospital, where he remains in critical condition.

Police wanted to quiz Ms. Smith’s husband for about several murders when they killed him in a shootout on May 17, 2019.

Mr Smith, better known as Fool, was one of three men killed in the incident.


Police said they went to execute a search warrant in a home in Blair Estates when the suspects allegedly opened fire on them. However, the officers returned fire and killed all of the suspects.

Ms. Smith, 48, witnessed the incident. Additionally, she was three months pregnant when her husband died.

Days after his death, police charged Ms. Smith and three others with drugs and gun crimes.

Prosecutors said that they found 23.2 pounds of marijuana, two 9mm pistols, a .45 pistol and seven rounds of .45mm ammunition.

They denied the charges and were released on bail.

Their trial was still pending before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt.

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