From The Court
April 25, 2007
Guards, driver get bail
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Four security guards employed to Ranger Security Limited and a driver who were arrested for conspiracy to defraud goods valued at $29,000, were granted bail in the sum of $40,000 each when they appeared in the St Catherine Criminal Court.
The five will return to court on Tuesday, May, 8, when the case will again be mentioned.
Arrested and charged with conspiracy are security guards Raymond Garwood, Shawn Mais, Nicholas Neilson and Venece Bovette and driver Lynval Gordon.
It was alleged that on the morning of April 10, about 5:00 in the morning, a group security manager at the Wisynco factory in Twickenham Park, St Catherine visited the facility and allegedly saw a blue pick-up truck, said to be driven by Gordon, leaving the compound. The court was told that he became suspicious and searched the truck and allegedly found it to be carrying goods including corn beef, juice and hand towels, valued at $29,000. The matter was reported to the Portmore police and upon investigation arrested and charged the five defendants.
The guards, the court heard, started working on the 7:00 pm shift and were scheduled to end their schedule at 7:00 the morning the truck was allegedly seen leaving the compound with goods.
- T K Whyte
Beckles denied bail again
RODNEY Beckles, the son of a University of the West Indies (UWI) professor, was denied bail in his murder case for the third time last week, despite lengthy, impassioned pleas by his attorney that he would join a drug rehabilitation programme and that his place at the UWI was still available to him.
Beckles, the son of Professor Hillary Beckles, principal of the UWI's Cave Hill Campus in Barbados, shook his head and smiled in disbelief after his bail application was denied by Justice Marva McIntosh in the Home Circuit Court last Thursday.
Justice McIntosh, in denying bail, said she was not satisfied, despite the assurances that Beckles, 21, would turn up for his trial and that she was not certain he would make the best use of a drug rehab programme....
Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer
