NASSAU- Police have a suspect in custody for a stabbing that left a man dead.
The murder happened around 2am Sunday at Ross Corner.
The suspect was arrested a short time later at home on Ross Corner.
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Police arrest suspect in stabbing murder
Rolex bandits raid John Bull Store at Atlantis
NASSAU-Police are looking for the bandits who robbed the John Bull store in the Atlantis resort around 11pm Saturday.
The two-man team stole dozens of Rolex watches by smashing open showcases after one of the robbers threatened employees with a gun.
In May 2019 bandits took close to $500,000 in merchandise during a smash and grab raid on the John Bull store in the Baha Mar Resort.
Days later, police charged three men with stealing and causing damage.
Jason Ferguson pleaded guilty at arraignment and was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.
Deigo Carey and Phynarge Wright went to trial. A magistrate dismissed the case against Wright in December. The case against Carey is still pending. He remains free on bail.
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Accused child molester freed on appeal
NASSAU- The Court of Appeal has overturned the conviction of a man accused of the sexual assault of his 12-year-old stepdaughter who tested positive for an STD.
The 40-year-old man, whose name has been withheld to protect the identity of the child, was jailed for 14 years in 2018.
Public defender Marianne Cadet argued that the conviction was unsafe and unsatisfactory, because the child tested positive for an STD her stepfather didn’t have.
Cadet said the child and her mother could have made up the complaint against the man because he was physically abusive and unfaithful.
The Court said, “In our view, the evidence against the appellant was weak and tenuous, that is to say, we held the view that the judge ought to have highlighted the implausibility of Child A’s complaint in light of the fact that the appellant did not have gonorrhea although it was alleged he had unprotected sex with Child A who was suffering from that disease.”
Hacker bought Marco’s Pizza in credit card scam
Celebrity hacker Alonzo Knowles used stolen credit card information to buy $74 worth of pizza.
Knowles, 28, surrendered to police after they issued a wanted poster for him last week.
His victim contacted police after seeing the charge on her credit card statement that she didn’t make.
The purchase was traced back to Knowles, who presented his driver’s license when he accepted the delivery in a cinema’s parking lot. He pleaded guilty to credit by fraud when he appeared before Magistrate Ayse Rengin Johnson.
She ordered Knowles to repay the victim the $74 and placed him on probation for six months.
Knowles was deported to The Bahamas last year after serving time in the U.S. for identity theft and copyright infringement. He hacked into the email accounts of dozens celebrities and stole unreleased music and scripts. Then he tried to sell the stolen material to an undercover officer.
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Body of missing man found stuffed in bin
GRAND BAHAMA-The search for a missing man turned into a murder investigation on Friday, February 14.
Officers from the Central Detective Unit found the man’s body stuffed in a bin at his home in Lewis Yard, Grand Bahama.
The officers were at the home investigating the man’s disappearance, ASP Terecita Pinder said.
If you have information that could help police solve this crime, call them on 350-3106, 350, 3112, 911, 919, or call your nearest police station.
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Cop arrests thief as he tries to break into his home
NASSAU- A thief got a surprise when he tried to break into a senior officer’s home.
Superintendent Mark Barrett (shown) caught Dennis Darville, of Augusta Street, trying to jimmy his door open on February 10 and arrested him.
Darville, 48, pleaded guilty to attempted housebreaking at his arraignment before Assistant Chief Magistrate Subusola Swain on Thursday, February 13 and was jailed for two years.
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Suspect in entertainer’s robbery, attempted murder denied bail
NASSAU-A magistrate on Wednesday, February 12 denied bail for a man who police say almost killed entertainer Demetrius Smith during an armed robbery.
Rasheed Watson, 20, of Dignity Gardens, faced charges of attempted murder, armed robbery and receiving at his initial court appearance before Magistrate Samuel McKinney.
Prosecutors say that Watson stabbed Smith multiple times during an armed robbery at his San Souci home on February 10.
Watson allegedly took Smith’s $70,000 Chevrolet Tahoe that had $2,500 inside.
Watson was not required to enter pleas to the charges when he appeared before the magistrate.
He will plead to the charges once the matter is committed to the Supreme Court for trial.
That is expected to happen when he returns to court on March 31.
Watson was arrested with another man in a police chase shortly after the incident; however, the second suspect was not charged.
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Mother jailed for 21 years on manslaughter charge
NASSAU-A woman who killed a man after an argument was on Tuesday, February 11, sentenced to 21 years in prison.
Dormecia Burrows, 29, was charged with murder in the May 27, 2014 stabbing death of Franklyn Stubbs. She pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of manslaughter in the middle of her murder trial last year.
Burrows, a mother-of-two, told police that she believed that Stubbs was armed when he returned after their argument and she defended herself.
The judge sentenced Burrows to 25 years with credit for time served, which reduced the sentence to 21 years.
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Two guilty of murdering teen mom in row over phone
NASSAU-Two women who went to trial after rejecting plea deals have been found guilty of the murder of teen mom Breanna Mackey.
Prosecutors said that Zaria Burrows cut Mackey off with her car as she walked along Key West Street on January 25, 2018.
Burrows remained in the vehicle while five others, including Dervinique Edwards, ganged Mackey in a petty row over a broken phone.
Mackey’s sister watched in horror as she was stabbed, kicked, stomped and pelted with rocks and bottles.
Both women didn’t take the stand—but their lawyers suggested that were only in the wrong place at the wrong time.
But the prosecutor argued that Burrows and Mackey shared a common purpose to kill as they did nothing to stop the attack or report the matter to police.
The women return to court for sentencing on March 31.
Four other defendants took plea deals in the case.
Thea Williams, 22, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 25 years for stabbing Mackey. Matia Sylverain, 18, who stomped Mackey, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 12 years. Davonya Lawes, 19, and Jolika Dumosle, 18, who admitted throwing rocks and bottles at Mackey have already served their two years sentences for causing harm.
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Immigrant admits using fake birth certificate to get documents
NASSAU-A Haitian man used a fake Bahamian birth certificate to obtain a certificate of identity for his daughter and apply for a belonger’s permit, a court heard.
Jackson Similien, 41, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on February 10 after pleading to charges of possession of a forged document, uttering a forged document, fraud by false pretenses and attempted fraud by false pretenses.
Similien told investigators that he had bought the birth certificate, later found to belong to someone else, for $1,000.
He first used the birth certificate in 2014 to get a certificate of identity from the Passport Office for his child who was born in Haiti.
Two years later he used the certificate to apply for belonger’s status from the Department of Immigration.
Once he serves his sentence, Similien will be deported to his native Haiti.
Similien was in the country on a work permit as a handyman.
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