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Man denies stealing Bahamas government-owned phone

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Man denies stealing Bahamas government-owned phone
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Brunaro Moxey remanded over theft of phone and money from Cabinet Minister’s car

Nassau, BAHAMAS-A man accused of stealing $800 and a cell phone from a Bahamas government minister’s car has been denied bail.

Health Minister Dr. Duane Sands’ official car, a 2016 Toyota Avalon, CM 8, was parked at his home on the Eastern Road, when a thief took his briefcase.

Police found the briefcase minus the money and Samsung S-10 cellphone. The phone belonged to The Bahamas government.

As a result, police charged Brunaro Moxey with the November 17, 2019 theft.

Moxey, 29, of Gibbs Corner, denied the theft charge at his arraignment.

The magistrate sent Moxey to prison until March 31.

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Haitian paid Bahamian bride $1,500 for spousal permit

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Haitian paid Bahamian bride $1,500 for spousal permit

Nassau, BAHAMAS-A woman wept as she admitted Haitian man paid her $1,500 for a fraudulent marriage so he could legally live in The Bahamas.

Janell Brown, a mother-of-four, pretended to be Jessica Newbold when she entered into the fraudulent marriage with Jugens St. Aude on August 11, 2015.

Newbold learned that someone had stolen her identity and married Haitian national St. Aude when she went to register her baby’s birth in July 2019.

At the time of the fraudulent marriage, Newbold was detained at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.

Police arrested Brown and St. Aude after investigating Newbold’s complaint.

FAKE BRIDE: Janell Brown heads to court after she entered a sham marriage to a Haitian immigrant.

Brown told investigators that she was paid $1,500 to participate in the marriage fraud scheme. She told investigators that she had used some of the money to buy clothing for her baby.

Despite this, Brown accompanied her Haitian ‘husband’ to the Bahamas Immigration Department to apply for a spousal permit, the court heard.

Brown pleaded guilty to 13 counts of fraud connected to the marriage for Bahamian citizenship scheme at her arraignment before Magistrate Samuel McKinney.

Magistrate McKinney postponed sentencing at the request of Attorney Anthony Newbold, who said that a probation report would assist the court in determining the appropriate punishment.

McKinney remanded Brown to prison, pending her sentencing on April 6.

Brown’s bogus husband, St Aude, is also in prison awaiting trial.

Haitian Lugens St. Aude paid $1,500 for fake marriage

Police have also arrested the Justice of the Peace who performed the sham wedding. He is expected to appear before a court soon.

Earlier this year immigration Minister Elsworth Johnson promised a crackdown of sham marriages, saying the bogus unions were a threat to the country’s national security.

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Jamaican jailed after marijuana seized at Bahamas airport

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Jamaican jailed after marijuana seized at Bahamas airport

Nassau, BAHAMAS-A Jamaican’s intended week-long vacation to The Bahamas became a 15-month stay after he was jailed for smuggling marijuana.

Kevar Lindsay, 33, was arrested at the Lynden Pindling International Airport on March 3 after a sniffer dog alerted its handler to his suitcase.

Police waited for Lindsay to collect the bag before they arrested him on suspicion of drug possession.

The officers searched Lindsay’s suitcase and found 13 packages of marijuana, with a combined weight of nine pounds, hidden under clothing.

Lindsay, a coffee farmer from Clarendon, Jamaica, said a friend had packed his suitcase.

Contraband: Bahamian police officers seized these packages containing nine pounds of marijuana from the suitcase of Jamaica native Kevar Lindsay

The Jamaican pleaded guilty to drug smuggling when he appeared before a magistrate on March 4. The magistrate sentenced him to 15 months in prison.

Lindsay had travelled from Jamaica to Nassau on a Caribbean Airlines flight. He was supposed to spend a week here on vacation.

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Teen charged with rape and murder of missing Long Island women

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Teen charged with rape and murder of missing Long Island women

NASSAU-A teenager accused of raping and killing his grandaunt and cousin in Long Island showed no emotion when he appeared before a magistrate today.

Nathan Harding, of Salt Pond, Long Island, is charged with the murder and rapes of Jane Harding, 62, and her daughter, Melissa Hui, 34.

They were reported missing on February 25. Their disappearance became a murder investigation on February 28, when a search team found them buried in shallow graves on a beach in Long Island.

Harding did not have to enter pleas to the charges when he made his initial court appearance before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt.

The magistrate directed that Harding undergo a psychiatric examination while on remand at the prison.

Ferguson-Pratt made the order after Harding’s lawyer, Bjorn Ferguson, said he had tried to hurt himself.

Harding returns to court on May 21.

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Man arrested for throwing cigarettes to inmate son

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Man arrested for throwing cigarettes to inmate son

A 62-year-old almost joined his son in prison. Police arrested Wayne Clarke Sr after he tossed four packs of cigarettes to Wayne Clarke Jr, an inmate on a work gang at Government House.

Wayne Clarke Sr. admitted a charge of interference with a prisoner at his arraignment before Magistrate Samuel McKinney on Tuesday, March 3.

Officers on mobile patrol kept an eye on Clarke when they saw him walking near Government House.

The watched as he threw a plastic bag over the wall of the official residence to the Governor General on February 24.

His son ran to retrieve the bag with the cigarettes, the court heard.

The security breach happened less than a year after Petty Officer Percival Perpall was murdered while on duty at Government House.

McKinney said this made Clarke’s crime even more serious.

Clarke was fined $500 or three months in prison.

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Police fatally shoot murder suspect

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Police fatally shoot murder suspect

NASSAU-A murder suspect was killed in a police shooting on Tuesday, March 3.

According to police, officers on patrol in Sea Breeze around 1pm saw the suspect on a moped.

Police said the man brandished a firearm, and officers fired shots, killing him.

The man, identified as Steve Voltaire, died at the scene. Police said a firearm was recovered.

Voltaire was on bail for murder. The incident is the third fatal police-involved shooting in eight days.

An inquest will be held into the incident.

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Donna Vasyli faces retrial uncertainty after Privy Council ruling

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Donna Vasyli faces retrial uncertainty after Privy Council ruling

NASSAU-Accused murderer Donna Vasyli still doesn’t know if she’ll be tried a second time for the murder of her husband.

Philip Vasyli, a world-renowned podiatrist, was found stabbed to death in his Bahamas mansion on March 24, 2015.

Donna, his wife of 34 years, was arrested and charged with his murder later that day.

She didn’t testify at her trial and the defense suggested that the killer possibly slipped past the 24-hour security at the gated community.

Prosecutors highlighted that there was no sign forced entry. The murder weapon came from a knife block in the kitchen. And Philip’s body was found in a locked home.

A jury convicted Donna of murder and she was sentenced to 20 years in prison in November 2015.

But in July 2017 the Court of Appeal overturned the conviction and sentence. Two members of the tribunal ordered a retrial. A third judge said a retrial would not be in the interests of justice.

Donna appealed that decision for a retrial to the Privy Council.

The Privy Council judges narrowed the appeal issues down to two: Was there a sustainable case against Donna Vasyli? And should they order a retrial or send the case back to the Bahamas Court of Appeal to decide?

In a ruling delivered on March 2, the judges found that Donna had a “case to answer” on the murder charge.

They allowed the appeal, set aside the initial order for a retrial, and sent the case back to the Court of Appeal “for reconsideration of whether there should be a retrial.”

Donna remains on $250,000 bail until then.

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Three charged in $1.2m money laundering scheme

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Three charged in $1.2m money laundering scheme

NASSAU – Former Free National Movement Cabinet Minister Elma Campbell and her son, attorney Che Chase, are accused of swindling $1.2 million from the Ministry of Tourism.

Campbell, 64, a former magistrate and Ambassador to China, and Chase, 37, both of Fox Hill Road, allegedly stole the money on September 6, 2019.

That’s when prosecutors say Chase cashed a forged Ministry of Tourism cheque made payable to their firm Campbell Chase Law.

Then they allegedly laundered their ill-gotten gains between September 6, 2019 and October 16, 2019.

Prosecutors say Campbell and her son laundered the dirty money through bank transfers, withdrawals and the purchase of a 2020 BMW X4.

They allegedly transferred $465,000 to Bahamas Outdoor Media, a company owned by businessman Damalus Curry, on October 16.

Curry, 38, of Tall Pines, is accused of money laundering regarding that transfer. And he’s denied the accusation.

Chase’s girlfriend Leah Davis also denied helping them conceal the theft.

They allegedly transferred $44,550 to her account in September. Prosecutors, however, dropped the money laundering case against Davis a short time later.

Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt will inform the defendants of their trial venue on March 30.

Ferguson-Pratt denied Campbell and Chase bail. But a Supreme Court judge freed them a short time later.

Curry has been remanded to a police station overnight. His bail hearing is set for Wednesday.

The courtroom was packed to capacity for the arraignment. Court staff had to get extra chairs to accommodate the defendants’ friends and family.

Among the well-wishers were Chase’s father, Haldane Chase; Robert “Sandy” Sands, a hotel executive and relative, and cultural icon, “Fast” Eddie Dames.

 

 

Suspect charged in rape and robbery spree

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Suspect charged in rape and robbery spree

NASSAU-A man accused of a recent crime spree in Nassau, Bahamas has been denied bail.

Police say Anthony McKenzie raped two women in separate home-invasion armed robberies.

He allegedly raped a 23-year-old during a burglary at her home on Marshall Road on January 14.

McKenzie and an accomplice escaped in a stolen Ford-150.

Then, on February 4, McKenzie allegedly raped a 45-year-old woman during a burglary at her home in Coral Harbour.

McKenzie and another man robbed the woman of jewellery and $4,500 before they escaped in her stolen 2008 Lexus.

Additionally, McKenzie is accused of robbing a woman of $2,200, a Mini Cooper and a black Mercedes Benz on December 23, 2019.

He’s accused of robbing the Aliv store on Prince Charles Drive of $28,544 on January 3, 2020.

McKenzie is accused of robbing a woman of a 2015 Infiniti, an iPhone XR Max, her wedding band and a piggy bank on January 23, 2020.

McKenzie was not required to enter pleas to those charges when he made his initial appearance before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt.

Those cases will be tried in the Supreme Court. Prosecutors intend to fast-track the matters to the Supreme Court by a voluntary bill of indictment on April 20.

However, McKenzie admitted to receiving a stolen Rolex valued at more than $117,000.

It was one of the 14 Rolex watches taken during a smash and grab robbery at the Rolex Boutique at the Atlantis Resort on February 15.

McKenzie denied charges that he participated in the Rolex raid, however.

He returns to court for sentencing in that matter on March 4.

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Men use fake money to buy McDonald’s

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Men use fake money to buy McDonald’s

NASSAU-Two scammers used a counterfeit $100 bill to pay for their meal at a fast-food restaurant downtown.

Jamal McPhee, 26, and John Sands, 21, of Bellot Road, pleaded guilty to possession of forged currency and attempted fraud by false pretenses at their arraignment on March 2.

They ordered two burger combos and an apple pie, worth $18.49, at the McDonald’s drive through on Marlborough Street on February 28.

But the cashier noticed that the money was fake—and told them to wait on their change.

As a result of the lengthy wait, the jittery fraudsters drove off without their change and food.

The manager called police and gave them a description of the suspects’ Suzuki Swift. This information was circulated to all patrol units, the prosecutor Inspector Philip Davis told the court.

Police arrested them near Bethel Avenue 15 minutes later, the court heard.

Magistrate Samuel McKinney told the men that their actions showed they were guilty.

He said, “No one is going to leave $100 behind.”

The magistrate gave the men the opportunity to keep clean criminal records by ordering them to perform 60 hours of community service.

If they don’t successfully complete community service, they will be fined $500 to avoid spending six months in prison.

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