TWO MEN CHARGED with stealing over 110 rods of sweet potatoes from Edgecumbe Plantation and Armag Farms appeared in the District “C” Magistrates’ court today.
Ian Emmerson Bennett, 41, and 52-year-old Seymour Dacosta Inniss, both of Cliff, St John heard the theft-related charges before Acting Magistrates’ Christopher Birch.
Bennett pleaded guilty to stealing over 90 rods of sweet potatoes between April 5 and October 23 last year. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Inniss denied three charges relating to stealing over 20 rods of sweet potatoes between April 23 and December 16. Prosecutor Azel Skeete objected to bail for the accused who was said to have a propensity to commit similar offences and he was remanded until May 9.
Meanwhile, Yvette May Butcher, 48, of Chapel No. 1, St Philip who was accused of not having a Certificate of Purchase for 178 kilogrammes of sweet potatoes found in her possession on April 8, 2016, was granted $1 000 bail and will return to court on June 27. (TKS)