NASSAU- Police are trying to figure out who killed a 37-year-old man Saturday afternoon and why.
The fatal shooting happened in front of a home on East Street around 1pm.
According to police, the victim was sitting on a porch when a lone gunman shot him multiple times before running away from the scene.
The resident of Miami Street died at the scene.
ABACO- A man accused of performing a sex act on a sleeping woman has pleaded not guilty.
Cyril “Bubba” McPhee, 23, appeared before Senior Magistrate Ancella Evans this week charged with entry by night and indecent assault.
The charges stem from an incident that took place at the Dome City in Spring City, Abaco on May 28.
A 45-year-old woman told police that she was awakened around 2am by something pounding her lower back.
She opened her eyes to see an intruder humping her shortly before he climaxed on her legs.
McPhee’s trial is set for October 5. As a condition of his $7,000 bail, he has to wear an ankle bracelet and report to the Marsh Harbour Police Station on Mondays and Wednesday.
NASSAU- Officers from the Drug Enforcement Unit arrested three policemen and two Colombians for alleged involvement in an international cocaine cartel.
A police statement said the arrests were a result of an investigation that began in Acklins on June 7.
In December 2021, police arrested an inspector after he was accused of helping smugglers landed a $25 million cocaine shipment on Crooked Island.
The smugglers, who implicated the officer, pleaded guilty and they were jailed for five years.
However, the officer was released without charge.
NASSAU- A wicked woman, who falsely accused a policeman of rape, has been jailed for two months.
Wendy Ann Lewis, 57, of Abraham Street, apologized profusely for her actions at her arraignment before Assistant Chief Magistrate Subusola Swain.
The court heard that police had detained Lewis at the Wulff Road Police Station on a threats of harm complaint.
While in custody on May 26, she claimed that a policeman came into her cell and raped her.
However, after checking the surveillance footage at the station investigators discovered that Lewis had lied.
The magistrate told Lewis that she had done a wicked thing, as she willfully told a lie that could have ruined a police officer’s livelihood.
Magistrate Swain said she had to jail Lewis because of the potential consequences of her false claim.
Lewis could have been jailed for up to six months in prison.
NASSAU- A security guard has been charged with indecently assaulting two students while on duty at the University of The Bahamas.
Prosecutors say James Minnis, 60, inappropriately touched the women, aged 22 and 23, on March 30, 2022.
Minnis, whose wife was in court, denied the allegations at his arraignment before Magistrate Shaka Serville.
The court set Minnis’ bail at $5,000 on the condition that he has no contact with any witnesses in the case.
He next returns to court on October 19 for the start of his trial.
In the meantime, Minnis is has been suspended from his job and placed on half pay.
NASSAU- A judge on Thursday discharged the jury hearing the attempted murder trial of Marvin Ferguson after learning of his murder.
Ferguson, who also used the surnames Sherman and Reckley, was accused of trying to take Altaran Rolle’s life in a shooting at Palmetto Avenue on April 9, 2018.
Ferguson was gunned down off Finlayson Street around 10pm on Wednesday, June 8.
During the trial, Rolle identified Ferguson as his shooter in court.
Plus, GPS data from his ankle monitor placed him on the scene of the crime.
Ferguson was the son of convicted drug dealer Marvin Sherman-Reckley, an associated of murdered drug dealer Ian “Irie” Porter.
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NASSAU- A man accused of having sexual with a woman who has an intellectual disability has been denied bail.
Yuel Major, 55, was not required to enter pleas to charges of unlawful sexual intercourse with a person suffering from a mental disorder and assault with a deadly weapon.
Prosecutors allege that Major took advantage of the 27-year-old woman who cannot legally consent to sex due to her mental impairment between May 1 and 31 and on June 5.
He’s also accused of pulling a knife on the same woman in May.
Major next returns to court on September 6 to receive a voluntary bill of indictment.
NASSAU – An expatriate worker accused of rape has been granted $25,000 cash bail.
Prosecutors allege that William McCann, 28, of Ontario, Canada, sexually assaulted a 21-year-old American tourist at the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort on May 26.
McCann is working at the resort as a contracted construction worker.
Prosecutors had no objection to McCann’s release from custody at a bail hearing before Justice Camille Darville-Gomez.
He was represented by Bjorn Ferguson.
McCann is expected to appear before Senior Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans on August 4 to receive a voluntary bill of indictment.
NASSAU – A Bain Town man who survived a previous shooting has been killed.
Marvin Ferguson, otherwise called Lil Merv, was murdered outside a home on Curtis Street, off Finlayson Street, around 10pm Wednesday.
According to police, Ferguson was in the back of the home with three other men when gunmen opened fire.
Ferguson died at the scene and another shooting victim is in critical condition, police said. Police did not give updates on the status of the remaining victims.
Ferguson cheated death when he was shot at Finlayson and Bola Avenue on March 11, 2021.
He was running away from a gunman who chased him inside the family’s home and Ferguson’s 10-year-old nephew Kenron Dean was killed by a bullet intended for his uncle.
Kenron’s twin brother and their seven-year-old cousin were also injured in the shooting.
NASSAU- A man whose infant son was killed in a car crash was charged on Tuesday with vehicular manslaughter.
Jameson Virgile, 27, allegedly ran the traffic light at the juncture of Soldier Road and Prince Charles Drive on February 23, 2022 and caused a three-car collision.
The van that Virgile was driving overturned.
Virgile’s two-month-old son, Jayceon, died at the scene.
Virgile was not required to enter a plea to the charge of vehicular manslaughter when he made his first court appearance before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt.
He was granted $10,000 bail on the condition that he signs in at the Carmichael Road Police Station on the 18th of each month before 6pm.
Virgile will return to court on November 30.
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