{"id":31925,"date":"2013-02-20T20:09:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T01:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=31925"},"modified":"2013-02-20T20:14:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T01:14:01","slug":"maycock-and-son-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/02\/maycock-and-son-sentenced","title":{"rendered":"Maycock and Son Sentences A Slap On Wrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14457\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14457\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14457\" title=\"melvin-maycock-sr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/melvin-maycock-sr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/melvin-maycock-sr.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/melvin-maycock-sr-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melvin Maycock Sr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Melvin Maycock Sr received an 8-month prison sentence for his escape from lawful custody five years ago. However, Magistrate Derence Rolle-Davis said his time was considered served since Maycock Sr had spent 18 months on remand waiting for his trial.<\/p>\n<p>Melvin Jr, Maycock&#8217;s son, was also sentenced, receiving just six months because he had only one previous conviction for which he was fined. That 6-month sentence was further reduced to two months as Melvin Jr. had spent four months on remand.<\/p>\n<p>Former Police Sergeant Troy Lewis spent no time on remand and received a full 6-month sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The sentences are effective as of February 20. Melvin Sr is currently serving three years in prison for possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melvin Maycock and his son were sentenced to prison time but, in what might be called a mockery of justice, both sentences were eliminated or reduced due to mitigating circumstances and remand time served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[151,270],"class_list":["post-31925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-court","tag-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}