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Tailor granted bail for buying stolen property
Oct 17, 2009 News
A tailor who pleaded not guilty, yesterday, was granted bail for receiving stolen property or property knowing to be unlawfully obtained.
Clyde Bowman, 52, of 167 Da Silva Street, Newtown, pleaded not guilty to receiving stolen property or property known to have been unlawfully obtained when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday.
It is alleged that between August 18 and August 21,last, the accused received from person or persons, four car rims and tyres known to be stolen and property of Kwesi Smith.
After pleading, the accused explained, “I was by Bourda Market selling some clothes and a guy came up selling some rims.
“I say ‘yo come. What you got there?’ He say he buy some rim 15″ rims for his car and he selling his 13- inch for $25,000. I told him I ain’t got all so he say he gonna come back.
“He came back the next day with the rims and I bought them. I went straight to the vulcanizing shop and put them on right away. A couple days later Smith came up to me and asked whose car is this. He came along with the police, identified the rims and we went to the station”.
According to Prosecutor Kevin London, “(Bowman) was offered by a man to purchase four car rims for $25,000. While on Regent Street on September 23, about 12:30 hrs Smith was passing in a bus when he saw the rims on a car. The prosecutor said that on checking he realized them to be his after seeing the registration number of his vehicle PFF 8606 on the rims.
He reported the matter to a nearby patrol, London said. The defendant was confronted, arrested and later charged.
Bowman was granted $40,000 bail by the Magistrate and is expected to return to court on November 5.
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