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Guard jailed for smuggling phone into prison

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Guard jailed for smuggling phone into prison

NASSAU- A former prison guard was on Wednesday sentenced to eight weeks in prison for trying to smuggle a cellphone to an inmate.

Romell Rolle, 26, pleaded guilty to bringing a prohibited item into the prison, an offense that carries a maximum of three months’ imprisonment.

He will spend an additional four weeks in prison, if he doesn’t pay a $600 fine.

Rolle had worked as a corrections officer for five years before his arrest on April 27.

The court heard that Rolle accepted a $250 bribe to deliver the Samsung Galaxy A01 phone to a medium security inmate.

Rolle stashed the cellphone inside a food container.

However, Rolle’s supervisor found the phone when he reported for duty.

Rolle claimed that money problems drove him to break the law.

But Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt said that this was not an excuse to “embark on a criminal enterprise.”

The magistrate hinted that she thought Rolle deserved a harsher punishment when she suggested that the penalty for the crime needed review.

Man jailed for keeping ‘found’ cocaine

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Man jailed for keeping ‘found’ cocaine

NASSAU -A promoter caught with more than two kilos of cocaine and a small amount of marijuana in his suitcase has been jailed for one year.

D’Neco Cleare and his wife, Tequiera Pratt, were scheduled to travel Abaco on Western Air on September 20.

However,  their plans were derailed when a baggage screener at the Lynden Pindling International Airport alerted police to suspicious packages in their luggage.

While searching a pink, floral suitcase, officers found two bricks of cocaine, potentially worth more than $40,000 on the streets. They also found less than an ounce of marijuana stuffed inside a sock.

D’Neco Cleare packed the two kilos of cocaine inside this floral suitcase

Cleare, 31, immediately owned up to the drugs and told police that they didn’t need to arrest his wife, the court heard.

Cleare admitted to possession of marijuana and having cocaine with intent to supply at his arraignment before Magistrate Samuel McKinney, while his wife pleaded not guilty.

According to Cleare, he came across the cocaine on September 18 while riding a jet ski off Paradise Island.

For reasons unknown, Cleare decided to pack the “found cocaine” in his luggage.

Cleare has no prior convictions.

In asking the court for mercy, defense lawyer Wendawn Miller-Frazer said that Cleare was forthright with police and didn’t waste the court’s time.

Magistrate McKinney sentenced Cleare to one year in prison and fined him $10,000. Cleare paid the fine to avoid spending an extra year behind bars.

His wife was released from custody after the prosecutor Inspector Timothy Bain withdrew the charges against her.

 

 

 

Man charged with indecent assault of 12-year-old girl

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Man charged with indecent assault of 12-year-old girl

NASSAU- A 63-year-old man who denied inappropriately touching a 12-year-old girl has been denied bail.

Arthur Jerome Thurston, of 29B Wellington Street, is accused of touching the girl’s vagina over her clothes on September 18.

Magistrate Samuel McKinney granted Thurston $5,000 bail with one or two sureties.

Thurston’s trial is set to begin on November 8.

Women accused of set up robbery get bail

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Women accused of set up robbery get bail

NASSAU- A Supreme Court judge today granted bail to two women accused of setting up an armed robbery at 700 Wines and Spirits.

Prosecutors allege that Evena Belton, 38, and Latoya Wallace, 36, gave the robber inside information that enabled him to rob the JFK liquor store of close to $40,000 on August 30.

Belton and Wallace were remanded to prison on September 8 after they were charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery.

Justice Weech-Gomez set bail at $20,000 with three sureties. They are required to surrender their travel documents; wear an ankle bracelet; and report to the East Street South Police Station on Tuesdays and Saturdays before 6pm.

The women will appear before McKinney on December 3 to receive a voluntary bill of indictment that will send their case to the Supreme Court for trial.

Ian Cargill represented them.

Accused pedophile faces child porn charges

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Accused pedophile faces child porn charges

NASSAU- An accused pedophile allegedly had pornographic images of two underage girls, prosecutors allege.

Zendel Stubbs Jr., 33, is accused of the statutory rape of the girls, ages 12 and 15 in July and August of this year.

The age of consent for heterosexual relationships is 16.

Stubbs allegedly met his victims on social media. Additionally, Stubbs is accused of having dirty images of the young girls in his phone.

He appeared before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt on Monday charged with unlawful sexual intercourse and child pornography.

Stubbs did not have to enter pleas to the charges because his trial will take place in the Supreme Court.

The chief magistrate remanded Stubbs to prison until December 12. On that date, prosecutors are expected to fast-track the case to the Supreme Court by presenting a voluntary bill of indictment.

Suspect attacks cop in station’s cell

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Suspect attacks cop in station’s cell

ABACO – A suspect attacked a policeman with a brick in the cell block at the Marsh Harbour Police Station this morning.

The officer’s injuries are not life-threatening.

He was attacked while preparing the man for a flight to Nassau when the incident took place.

According to well-placed sources, the suspect has a history of mental illness.

Drug mule ‘forced’ to smuggle cocaine

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Drug mule ‘forced’ to smuggle cocaine

NASSAU- Convicted drug mule Junior Reid has claimed that a drug cartel forced him to smuggle cocaine here from Panama.

The Jamaican was jailed for 18 months and fined $10,000 for attempting to smuggle a kilo of cocaine worth $20,000.

Reid told the court that he can’t pay the fine, meaning he’ll serve another six months in custody.

Law enforcement conducting surveillance at the Lynden Pindling International Airport on September 9 decided to search Reid because he was behaving suspiciously. They found the drugs taped to his legs.

Reid told Magistrate Samuel McKinney that he had no choice to commit the crime.

According to him, members of the criminal gang told him they would kill his mother and daughter if he didn’t smuggle drugs for them.

Reid said he still didn’t know if his relatives were safe.

 

Women charged with set up robbery

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Women charged with set up robbery

NASSAU- Two women are behind bars, accused of setting up an armed robbery at 700 Wines and Spirits.

Prosecutors allege that Evena Belton, 38, and Latoya Wallace, 36, arranged the August 30 hold-up at the liquor store’s John F Kennedy Drive location.

A gunman robbed an employee of a deposit bag.

Police issued wanted posters for the suspects on September 2.

They were not required to enter pleas to the charge at their first court appearance today.

Magistrate Samuel McKinney denied bail and adjourned the matter to December 3.

Teen accused of watching woman bathe

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Teen accused of watching woman bathe

NASSAU- A teen is charged with watching a woman take a bath at her home.

Levant Wright Jr, 18, was allegedly caught spying on the 31-year-old woman on August 8.

The incident allegedly happened in Lovely Bay, Acklins.

Wright denied the charge at his arraignment before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt, who remanded him to prison.

A bail hearing is set for August 30.

Wright faces a maximum three-year sentence if convicted of voyeurism.

Man on bail for 3 murders is killed

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Man on bail for 3 murders is killed

NASSAU- A suspect in three murders became a statistic himself when he was gunned down Wednesday afternoon.

Eduardo Carey, 41, was ambushed by two gunmen as he left his family’s business on Quintine Alley around 5pm.

Carey, whose street name was Machine, was recently released on bail.

He was charged with three murders in October 2019 and had spent almost two years in custody awaiting trial.

Carey was accused of the December 15, 2018 murder of Ryan “Smokey” Butler and the attempted murders of Deangelo Bethel and Kevon Bethel at Ridgeland Park.

He was also accused of the August 25, 2019 murder of Justin Davis at Ross Corner and the September 15, 2019 murder of Anthony “Tutu” Wright on First Street.

In 2016, Carey was acquitted of the August 23, 2014 murder of Delano Brice, who was killed in a drive-by shooting while attending a funeral repast through Quakoo Street.

 

 

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