Four men and a female, suspected of terrorizing the business community over the last three months, left court ready to steal again.<\/p>\n
The group was charged with offenses alleged to have taken place between July 4 and September 21, 2011.<\/p>\n
One of the suspects, American national Johnathan Alcegaire, alias “J Boy”, was was charged with numeorus crimes, including, shopbreaking, attempted shopbreaking, stealing from a shop, housebreaking and possession of dangerous drugs.<\/p>\n
The 22 year old appeared in three defferent Magistrates Courts on Monday.<\/p>\n
In Court 1, Magistrate Debbye Ferguson read out the 16 counts, which included the break-in at the BTC Seahorse Plaza office in which Alcegaire and another man, Darrin O’brian, 26, are charged.<\/p>\n
On the drug count, the 22 year old was also charged with 22-year-old Chekhovia Bethel. However, police withdrew the charges against the female after Alcegaire guilty plea.<\/p>\n
Alcegaire also plead guilty in Court 3 before Deputy Chief Magistrate Helen Jones to four counts of shopbreaking and four counts of stealing from a shop from the Good Food Restaurant, The Corner Shop and Meat Mart, the Mackey and Moxey Law Firm and the Working Man Bar.<\/p>\n
The Watergate Apartments man was bound over to keep the peace for seven years and, in default, he is to spend three years at Her Majesty’s Prison.<\/p>\n
Thirty-two-year-old Antonio Miller, aka “Toe,” of Hudson Estates, also appeared in Court 3 for being concerned with others for housebreaking and stealing from a dwelling house.<\/p>\n
It is alleged that he and others unlawfully broke into and entered the dwelling house of Anishka Smith, of Mack Town, with the intent to steal.<\/p>\n
Otis Brown and Adrian Mortimer were also called upon to answer to related charges.<\/p>\n
It does not appear that anyone went to jail despite the numerous crimes involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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