Trio jailed on charges of drug possession, armed robbery and larceny

Sep 24, 2015 News

Penny Smith, 54, of Leopold Street, Georgetown, was yesterday sentenced to four years’ imprisonment after she was found guilty of trafficking cocaine.
On July 29, last, at Leopold Street, Smith had 17 grammes of cocaine in her possession for the purpose of trafficking.
Magistrate Faith McGusty handed down the sentence yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Police Prosecutor, Corporal Seon Blackman called several witnesses to testify, including police ranks and civilians.
The prosecution’s case is that on the day in question, the police acting on information, went to the home of Smith and saw her holding a black plastic bag.
The police took possession of the bag and probed its contents which later tested positive for cocaine. Smith was taken into custody and the charge instituted.
Smith made her first court appearance last month before Magistrate Ann McLennan and was remanded to prison after pleading not guilty to the charge. She had remained on remand throughout her trial.
In defence, the convict had explained that she had no cocaine in her possession, but some $5,000 and $1,000 notes, which she had found lying around on the floor.
She had also accused the police of ripping off her underwear to retrieve her money hidden inside.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Magistrate McGusty sentenced two men to 42 months’ imprisonment each, after they were found guilty on charges of robbery under-arms and larceny from the person.
The men, 29-year-old, gold miner Mark Brummel of ‘B’ Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown, and 17-year-old, fish vendor Kareem Douglas (no fixed place of abode) being armed with an ice pick, robbed Christopher Headecker of a Samsung Galaxy S4 phone on May 1, at Regent Street, Georgetown.
Brummell and Douglas also stole a pedal cycle belonging to Mark Alleyne on the same day at Regent Street.
The prosecution’s case against both men stated, that Alleyne left his bicycle unattended next to a store on Regent Street, when the men stole it.
Subsequently, the men made their way to Middle Street, Georgetown, in the vicinity of the Promenade Garden when they saw Headecker and pounced on him with an ice pick.
They demanded Headecker to hand over his cellphone, and he complied.
Brummell and Douglas were sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment on the robbery under-arms charge.
They were given six months each for the larceny from person charge.