Armed robbery accused granted bail

Jan 04, 2017 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

After spending a few weeks in prison, Jason Adams was given his New Year’s wish. After much begging he was granted $20,000 bail on a robbery under-arms charge by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.

On Bail: Jason Adams

But this came after another appearance in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday.
Adams is accused of robbing Baksh Mohamed of two cell phones valued $40,000, while armed with a hammer on December 6, at Brickdam, Georgetown.
He pleaded not guilty.
“Thank you very much,” he told the Magistrate. James was also placed on a bond to be on good behaviour until the determination of the matter.
Police Corporal Deniro Jones represented the prosecution and told the court that a statement is still outstanding from the case file.
The Chief Magistrate transferred the matter to Court 12 Night Court for January 10. She also made an ordered for the phones to be returned to Baksh.
The 25-year-old man who claims he resides in France and staying in Guyana at his “side chick” was remanded to prison for the offence when he appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty earlier last month.
Adams professed his innocence and claimed that he served in the French Military as a sergeant. “I is a sergeant. Three stripes I got. I don’t live here…I stopping at Pegasus but staying at my side chick in Durban Street,” Adams told the court.
But no one bought his story, not even the Magistrate.
Adams stood uneasily in the prisoner’s dock. He moved about to see persons reaction as he provided the Magistrate with hilarious replies.
”You know who is me?” he asked Magistrate McGusty. “I’m from the Gaza…Kartel and me is family.”
He had persons sniggering at responses he provided to questions asked by the Magistrate. Although Adams claimed he lives in the French-speaking country, he was unable to recite a French term.
”Wee Wee”, he said in a loud tone. He had earlier shared out Dentyne mints to other prisoners.
Adams’s family had brought him before another Magistrate last week, pleading for a psychiatric evaluation to be done on him.
In 2014, he was charged with a series of robberies and assaults. However, Adams’s lawyer had claimed that he suffers from a nervous disorder and asked for him to be seen by a psychiatrist.
Adams was also charged with stealing plucked chickens from a Chinese Restaurant at Bourda, Georgetown in 2010.

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