Bahamas Court News

NASSAU- Police have charged a 28-year-old man in connection with a $5 million cocaine seizure.

Kenly Guerrier, of Russel Town, Eight Mile Rock, faces four charges related to the November 15 seizure.

Guerrier pleaded not guilty to charges of drug possession with intent to supply and drug importation. He also denied conspiring to commit those offenses.

Magistrate Samuel McKinney remanded Guerrier to prison pending a bail hearing on November 26.

Officers from the DEU, DEA and OPBAT descended on Guerrier’s apartment around 12am Monday.

While searching his unit, they allegedly found a key that unlocked the unit next door.

The officers found nine suitcases filled with the cocaine inside the second apartment.

The drugs weighed 250 kilos.

NASSAU- A man accused of sexually abusing a dependent child has been denied bail.

Doyle Dean, 36, of Mount Thompson, Exuma, is accused of molesting the child at ages 10 and 12.

Prosecutors allege Dean molested the girl in 2018 and again in 2021.

He’s also accused of indecently assaulting the 12-year-old on October 30.

Dean did not have to enter pleas to charges of unlawful sexual intercourse with a dependent and indecent assault.

Assistant Chief Magistrate Subusola Swain remanded Dean to prison.

However, he can apply for bail in the Supreme Court.

Dean returns to court on January 17.

NASSAU – A serial con artist has admitted to duping six people out of a collective $40,000 for cars and boats that did not exist.

Slickster Shane Mackey was back to his old tricks, months after he fooled officials into pardoning him on March 5 for a similar scam.

During August and September, Mackey, 40, used the same scam he’s been running for decades—but with a slight revision.

Instead of placing ads in newspapers, Mackey advertised his nonexistent merchandise on Facebook Marketplace.

When interested buyers replied, Mackey, who was impersonating Terrance Curtis, told them the item had already been sold.

However, he claimed he could get them a similar item for the same price once they paid him a 50 percent deposit.

After showing the buyers Curtis’ NIB card, he then instructed his customers to send the money to friends’ bank accounts, who then gave the money to him.

None of the intended buyers got their vehicles and neither did he return the stolen cash.

Curtis was an unwitting participant in Mackey’s scam. He met Mackey in prison, and he’d given Mackey his NIB card after he promised to help him get a job on a fishing boat.

Mackey, otherwise known as Mastermind, pleaded guilty at his arraignment before Magistrate Kendra Kelly.

She remanded him to prison until December 13 for sentencing. Sergeant 260 Pyfrom prosecuted.

In past years, Mackey notoriously carried out his scam from his prison cell by using a smuggled cellphone.

NASSAU- A jury has found a woman guilty of murder for shooting her lover in 2015.

Lynette Charlton, 48, asked Wayne Seymour to pick her up from her home off Soldier Road on December 27, 2015 so they could talk.

They got into an argument while driving on Adelaide Road and she pulled a handgun, causing him to stop his truck and run away.

The jury found that Charlton shot Seymour three times as he fled.

Then she drove off in his Chevrolet Silverado truck, leaving him for dead.

However, Seymour didn’t die immediately. And he told multiple people who shot him before he died in hospital on December 28, 2015.

Prosecutors alleged that Charlton killed Seymour because she was jealous that he was seeing other women.

However, Charlton denied ever being in a relationship with Seymour.

Instead, she described him as her “f*** buddy.”

Additionally, Charlton denied shooting Seymour or being with him.

However, gunshot residue tested positive on Charlton’s hands.

Justice Jeanine Gomez will sentence Charlton next year.

She has ordered psychiatric and probation reports to assist with sentencing.

NASSAU- A man caught on camera vandalising a statue of Christopher Columbus while trespassing on Government House grounds has pleaded not guilty after psychiatrists found he was of sound mind.

Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt did not allow Shervandaze Smith, 37, to plead to the charges at his initial court appearance last month, despite his insistence that, “There is nothing wrong with me.”

She remanded him to prison for a psychiatrists to determine if he was fit to plead.

In a viral video of the October 9 incident, Smith uses a sledgehammer to knock off the right leg and hand of the monument.

When officers arrived, he lay prostrate with his hands behind his back. According to Smith, he’d worked as personal butler at an all-inclusive resort. He also said he moved out of his mother’s house because she was telling people he was crazy.

Smith’s next court appearance is November 29 for a bail hearing.

NASSAU- A woman says she was raped by a man she met on Facebook.

The 22-year-old woman had been talking to Mervin Johnson for several weeks before they decided to meet in person.

That meeting allegedly took place at Johnson’s place on Peter Street on November 10.

However, instead of entertaining his guest, prosecutors say Johnson, 21, raped her.

Johnson was not required to enter a plea to the rape charge when he appeared before Assistant Chief Magistrate Subusola Swain yesterday.

Johnson was denied bail and will next appear in court on December 10.

Sergeant Lincoln McKenzie prosecuted.