{"id":63722,"date":"2014-05-09T08:43:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T12:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/two-accused-of-bank-raid-are-acquitted"},"modified":"2014-05-09T08:43:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T12:43:27","slug":"armed-robbers-acquitted-on-technicalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/05\/armed-robbers-acquitted-on-technicalities","title":{"rendered":"Armed Robbers Acquitted on Technicalities"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"crime-pays\"Two of three men accused of the $65,000 hold-up of Scotia Bank in Emerald Bay, Exuma, four years ago were acquitted of their involvement after prosecutors offered no evidence against them.<\/p>\n

Isaiah Sands and Craig Rolle had faced a charge of armed robbery concerning the May 14, 2010 incident along with Adnan Oliver.<\/p>\n

Before the commencement of trial, week-long legal discussions were held in the absence of the jury and concluded yesterday when Crown prosecutors offered no further evidence against Sands and Rolle.<\/p>\n

As a result, Justice Roy Jones directed the jury to acquit the pair of the charge.<\/p>\n

The Tribune understands the case against Rolle was dismissed because his alleged confession in police custody was deemed inadmissible.<\/p>\n

Regarding Sands, blood had been taken from him for forensic analysis. However, as he was a minor at the time, he could not have consented to having this procedure done without a parent or guardian present.<\/p>\n

Prosecution against Oliver continues. He is defended by Romona Farquharson-Seymour.<\/p>\n

Vernal Collie and Abigail Farrington are prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n

Source: tribune242.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Incompetent police and lame prosecutors allowed two armed robbers who were responsible for a bank heist in Exuma four years ago to walk free, proving once again that crime pays in The Bahamas..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":64095,"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":[32,31,297,142,38],"class_list":["post-63722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-exuma","tag-incompetence","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63722","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=63722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}