Five men from Nassau accused of involvement in an armed robbery at the Royal bank of canada in Eleuthera last week appeared in in court for the first time yesterday.
In a packed Magistrate’s Court, Mack Curtis, 26; Jeremy Pinder, 26; Gershan Johnson, 24; Jermaine Ferguson, 32 and William Fox, 45 were charged before Magistrate Linda Virgill with conspiracy to commit armed robbery.
Of the accused Curtis, Pinder, Johnson and Ferguson were charged with the actual act of armed robbery , kidnapping and receiving.
Court records alege that on December 1 at Spanish Wells, Eleuthera, the accsed, armed with a hand gun, robbed Rihoda Pinder or $21,128.88 the property of the Royal Bank of Canada. On the same date they kidnapped bank employee, Marsha Pinder.
They also faced charges of possession of an unlicensed firearm, possession of ammunition and resisting arrest.
Source: Tiffany Grant, The Tribune
