NASSAU-A feud over of a plate of food has landed a man in prison.
Prosecutors say Temiko Smith, of Plantol Street, pulled a gun and made death threats towards his family on December 26, 2019 because he couldn’t find the Christmas dinner leftovers he had set aside.
Smith has pleaded not guilty to charges of threats of death and assault with a deadly weapon.
He’s been refused bail and returns to court on January 28 for trial.
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NASSAU-Twenty foreign fishermen have filed a class action lawsuit accusing the Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources of violating immigration laws by refusing to renew their dive compressor permits.
The Dominican and Honduran divers, through their lawyer Dion Smith, have asked the Supreme Court to compel Minister Michael Pintard to issue the permits so that they can continue to harvest crawfish for their Bahamian employers.
NASSAU-A man left disabled by a failed suicide attempt was wheeled into court on Christmas Eve to be charged with the murder of his girlfriend.
Kenrick Hanna, 29, broke his pelvis and sustained other serious injuries when jumped from a building after the September 24 murder of Monet Darville in Freeport, Grand Bahama.
He made his court appearance before Senior Magistrate Derence Rolle-Davis exactly three months after Darville was stabbed to death in front of relatives at an apartment in South Bahamia.
Hanna jumped from a third-floor balcony of that building when police arrived.
He was airlifted to the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau for treatment for injuries sustained in the fall but was kept under police guard.
Hanna, who showed no emotion during his brief court hearing, was not required to enter a plea because a magistrate cannot try a murder case.
Rolle-Davis remanded Hanna to prison over the objections of defense lawyer Miranda Adderley.
She argued that the conditions at the prison were not appropriate for a disabled suspect.
Adderley said that Darville’s doctor said he required at least another month of bed rest, but there are no beds at the prison.
Hanna returns to court on March 4 for service of a Voluntary Bill of Indictment (VBI), which will send the case to the Supreme Court for trial.
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The Crown has appealed the grant of bail to American boat captain Peter Albee immediately after his conviction and sentence for a 2017 stabbing.
Ordinarily, a challenge to the grant of bail prevents the release of the applicant.
But Albee, of Plantation, Florida, had already left the country by the time officials realized he’d been bailed and not jailed.
Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt released Albee on $5,000 shortly Senior Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans sentenced him to 18 months for causing grievous bodily harm on September 4.
The appeal questions whether the chief magistrate had the authority to grant him bail.
During his testimony, Albee, 62, smugly admitted to stabbing Jak Hannaby-Cummins, as he tried to evict him from his parents’ guest house in Port New Providence.
Albee had been given board as part of his employment with the family. But he refused to vacate the premises after his dismissal.
FREEPORT- A man killed a woman and then tried to end his life in Grand Bahama, police said.
Police found the woman stabbed to death, just before 9pm on Tuesday, September 24, inside an apartment in South Bahamia.
The victim’s boyfriend sustained life-threatening injuries when he jumped from the balcony of the same building after police failed to talk him down. He is in critical condition in hospital.
A Nassau man arrested after police allegedly found him with an assault rifle has been charged with a shooting that left one dead and two others injured.
Prosecutors say that 21-year-old Tarrico Bowleg, of Joan’s Drive, is responsible for the August 13 murder of Keion Butler and the attempted murders of Marvin Tilme and Chavez Thompson at Amos Ferguson Street.
Bowleg, who denied the firearm possession charge last week, was not required to enter a plea to the murder and attempted murder charges when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt on Tuesday, August 27.
He has been denied bail and returns to court in October.
Police said the victims were in a yard when two gunmen arrived in a silver car and opened fire on them.
A marine could face the death penalty if convicted of murdering a superior officer at Government House.
Jevon Seymour, 34, was arraigned on a capital murder charge Friday in connection to the fatal shooting of 52-year-old Petty Officer Percival Perpall.
The shooting happened around 2:30am on April 28 in the guard room. Two other marines, Ellis Rahming and Calvin Hanna, were also shot in the incident but survived.
Seymour faces charges of attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life in respect to their shootings.
Seymour, who is on remand, denied the charges at his arraignment before Justice Carolita Bethell, as supporters proclaimed his innocence outside court.
His case has been assigned to Justice Bernard Turner for trial.
A jet ski operator has been jailed for 20 months after police seized 111 pounds of ganja at his home during a raid.
Christopher Mortimer, 49, of Mount Tabor Estates, admitted to having the drugs with the intent to supply.
When police executed a warrant on Mortimer’s home on August 15, they found drugs in a suitcase—and in two crocus sacks in a shed outside.
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