NASSAU-Police have a charged a suspect in an armed robbery in the East Street area.
Prosecutors say Antonio Murray, 24, of Honeycombe Street, robbed Jerome Young at gunpoint of a $100 cellphone and a wallet that contained $1,525 cash on June 5.
Murray faces the alternative charge of receiving $200 in proceeds from the armed robbery.
The victim told police that six masked men—one armed with a cutlass, another with a gun, accosted and robbed him at Anderson Street around 9pm.
Murray did not have a lawyer when he made his initial court appearance before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt.
Murray did not enter a plea because the case will be heard in the Supreme Court.
Prosecutors plan to send the case to the Supreme Court on October 14.
Ferguson-Pratt denied bail and remanded Murray to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.
However, the magistrate him of his right to apply to the Supreme Court for bail.
