plea agreement - Bahamas Court News https://bahamascourtnews.com Providing comprehensive coverage of court cases Sat, 19 Aug 2023 15:06:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Man gets 16 years for fatal shooting https://bahamascourtnews.com/man-gets-16-years-for-fatal-shooting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=man-gets-16-years-for-fatal-shooting Sat, 19 Aug 2023 15:06:08 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=6361 Nassau, BAHAMAS- A man responsible for a shooting that killed a man and injured another has been jailed for 16 years. Alvarado Curry pleaded guilty to manslaughter and attempted murder as part of a plea deal. Prosecutors alleged that Curry and Pedreito Mejias killed Javardo Thompson and tried to kill Antonio Morley during a drive-by […]

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]]> Cop killer loses bid to toss convictions https://bahamascourtnews.com/cop-killer-loses-bid-to-toss-convictions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cop-killer-loses-bid-to-toss-convictions Wed, 06 Jul 2022 11:37:14 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=5407 NASSAU- A man who claimed he was drunk and high when he pleaded guilty to killing Inspector Carlis Blatch during an armed robbery has lost his attempt to have his convictions overturned. Timothy Cole received concurrent sentences of 33 years for murder and 18 years for armed robbery following his guilty plea on February 10, […]

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]]> Probation for serial child abductor https://bahamascourtnews.com/probation-for-serial-child-abductor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=probation-for-serial-child-abductor Wed, 21 Jul 2021 11:28:11 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/probation-for-serial-child-abductor/ NASSAU- A mentally ill woman who abducted four boys and attempted to kidnap a fifth was sentenced to three years of supervised probation on Tuesday. De’Edra Gibson, 31, carried out the spree of kidnappings from February 16 to March 29, 2019. While on bail for those offenses, Gibson tried to snatch a seven-year-old boy as […]

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]]> Trafficker pays sex slave $10k in restitution https://bahamascourtnews.com/trafficker-pays-sex-slave-10k-in-restitution/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trafficker-pays-sex-slave-10k-in-restitution Mon, 14 Dec 2020 09:44:48 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=3043 NASSAU-A Dominican woman who forced a woman to work as a sex slave has paid her victim $B10,000 in restitution as part of her sentence. Sobeyda Reyes-Garcia, 39, was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay restitution after her human trafficking case ended with a plea deal on Friday. The two-year sentence […]

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]]> Man fined after ramming car into curfew checkpoint https://bahamascourtnews.com/man-fined-after-ramming-car-into-curfew-checkpoint/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=man-fined-after-ramming-car-into-curfew-checkpoint Fri, 01 May 2020 10:13:57 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=1238 Nassau, BAHAMAS- A man who rammed through a coronavirus curfew checkpoint escaped jail time with a plea deal. Antonio Mario Taylor, 27, refused to stop at the checkpoint at the Pinewood Gardens roundabout around 8:45pm on April 21. Instead, he hit a barricade with his Nissan March, causing $700 in damage. Taylor sped around the […]

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