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Bag of stolen squash costs man $20,000

Feb 15, 2011 News

Officers at the City Constabulary outpost near Bourda Market, Georgetown, arrested Junior Mc Ferlin after he was seen with a bag containing a quantity of cucumbers and squash which were suspected to be unlawfully obtained or stolen.
City Constabulary prosecutor, Corporal James Garnett, told the court, that on February 10, the accused was observed with the items in the Bourda Market and officers decided to arrest him. Mc Ferlin, he said, is a well known felon.
After the man’s explanation about how he obtained the items did not add up, he was arrested and charged. He appeared before Magistrate Geeta Edmond-Chandan yesterday.
The accused told the court that he was guilty of the charge instituted against him.
He was fined $20,000 with an alternative of three months in the Camp Street penitentiary. Ivor Arokium and Junior Bacchus also appeared before the same Magistrate to answer to the charge of playing a game of cards.
Arokium’s address was given as lot 159 Da Silva Street, Kitty, Georgetown.
The court was told that on February 11, at Stabroek Market, the two were involved in a game of cards. They were told of the offence committed, cautioned and taken to the Stabroek constabulary outpost where they were charged.
After the charge was read to them, they both entered a guilty plea. They were not represented by an attorney.
They were fined $10,000 each. Failure to pay will result in them being imprisoned for 20 days. Also making their first court appearance before the same Magistrate, was Richard Fresco who was charged for resisting arrest.
On February 17, at Stabroek Market Wharf Georgetown, the accused resisted city Constabulary Sergeant Peter Livingston.
To the offence he pleaded guilty, after listening to the facts of the case, Magistrate Edmond-Chandan fined him $20,000 or an alternative of twelve weeks in jail.

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