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Nassau, BAHAMAS- A man whose co-defendants were killed while on bail has received a trial date for his attempted murder case.

Omar Atkinson will be tried for the attempted murder of Tarrico Bowleg on February 10, 2025.

Prosecutors alleged that Atkinson, Pedreito Mejias and Dion Excelant attempted to murder Bowleg when they shot him in Pinewood Gardens on April 23, 2022.

All three men were granted bail for the offense.

However, Atkinson was remanded to prison after he was charged with the October 29, 200 murder of Fred Lifaite at Sixth Street, The Grove.

Both of Atkinson’s co-accused were killed this year.

On April 25, Mejias was killed when gunmen opened fire on a car driven by Excelant in Flamingo Gardens.

Excelant escaped unharmed. But he was killed in an ambush shooting at Summer Haven on July 6.

Nassau, BAHAMAS – A jury on Thursday wasted no time in acquitting Kevin Cooper Jr of the sexual assault of a 41-year-old “sex worker.”

After deliberating for just 15 minutes, the nine-member jury returned a not guilty verdict.

Cooper alleged that he promised to pay the woman $200 for sex after he met her at Arawak Cay on the evening of November 17, 2022.

After agreeing on the fee, he said they walked back to his place on West Bay Street, where they had consensual sex.

However, he claimed that things went south and she accused him of rape after he didn’t pay her.

Acting DPP Cordell Frazier said the portrayal of the woman as a sex worker was an attempt tarnish her character.

She urged jurors to believe the woman’s claim that she didn’t consent to sex.

According to the woman, while at Arawak Cay she paid a hacker to take her to her home in eastern New Providence.

She claimed that Cooper got into the car as well. The woman said she dozed off during the drive and woke up when the car stopped at the site of the former Cocktails and Dreams Nightclub.

She alleged that Cooper dragged her from the car and took her to his room, where he raped her for two hours.

After gaining Cooper’s trust, the woman said she told him that she wanted to go to the gas station.

She got dressed and Cooper used a bed sheet to cover his nakedness and they walked to the station together.

Once at the station, the woman asked staff to call the police.

When officers arrested Cooper for rape, he claimed that he had failed to pay the woman for sex.

Miranda Adderley represented Cooper.

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Nassau, BAHAMAS- A shooting suspect has been jailed for having a 9mm pistol and 36 rounds of ammunition.

Police officers found the contraband stashed in Aldeon Miller’s bedroom closet during a raid on his Gleniston Avenue home on August 27.

Just five days before, prosecutors say Miller tried to kill Latario Missick when he allegedly shot him multiple times outside of his home in Nassau Village.

Miller pleaded guilty to charges of possession of an unlicensed firearm and possession of ammunition with intent to supply at his arraignment before Acting Chief Magistrate Roberto Reckley.

He didn’t enter a plea to the enter murder charge because he will be tried in the Supreme Court.

Miller’s lawyer, Ian Cargill, told the court that the self-employed truck driver foolishly took him the gun and bullets that he found the gun while clearing bushes.

He asked the court to impose a one-year sentence and a fine.

The prosecutor, ASP Philip Davis, sought a sentence of 18 months.

The magistrate jailed Miller for 15 months on the gun charge. He also imposed a $3,000 fine with a default sentence of an additional three months in prison.

Miller received a concurrent sentence of six months’ imprisonment for the ammunition.

He is next due in court on November 14 to receive a voluntary bill of indictment for the attempted murder case.

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