CROP CROOK Hayden Ricardo Brathwaite was jailed yesterday for two years, the third potato thief to be incarcerated in two days.
The 42-year-old man of Church Village, St Philip, appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Christopher Birch in the District “C” Magistrate’s Court located within the Supreme Court Complex and pleaded guilty to stealing sweet potatoes.
Sergeant Azel Skeete said Brathwaite admitted he stole the 50 rods of sweet potatoes valued $1000 and sold them to Yvette Butcher, a 48-year-old woman of Chapel No. 1 St Philip.
She appeared on Monday on a charge of not having a certificate of purchase for 178 kilogrammes of sweet potatoes, pleaded not guilty and was released on $1 000 bail to return to court on June 27.
In his confession Brathwaite said where he had taken the stolen produce.
On Monday acting Chief Magistrate Birch sentenced 41-year-old Ian Bennett of Cliff, St John to 18 months on five similar charges.
He appeared along with Seymour DaCosta Inniss, 52, of Cliff, St John who pleaded not guilty on three charges of stealing 20 rods of potatoes between April 23 and December 16, 2015. Inniss was remanded until May 9. (AC)