By LAMECH JOHNSON
Tribune Staff Reporter
ljohnson@tribunemedia.net
POLICE charged two teenagers in Magistrate's Court yesterday with kidnapping and armed robbery at Paradise Island on March 7. They were accused of abducting a woman from her Paradise Island home and taking her to a bank where she was ordered to withdraw a sum of money from her account.
Stephen Green, 19, and a 16-year-old girl, both of Lily Walk Way, are being held in prison on remand after being charged in connection with the armed robbery in which more than $15,000 in cash, electronics and other items were taken from Mr Jamerson Hill's home.
However, that is not the only case for which the two will stand trial before the courts.
The Lily Walk Way residents, before the paradise island armed robbery arraignment, were charged with an incident of housebreaking and theft between March 20 and 22.
In that incident they were charged with breaking into a man's home on Jack Fish Drive and stealing assorted jewellery, cash and electronic items, including a surveillance system together valued at $32,400.
They pleaded not guilty to the Jack Fish Drive robbery and were going to be granted $8,000 bail and put under a 7pm curfew when the court was informed of the Paradise Island charges. The police prosecution told Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez that they would not be eligible for bail because of the Paradise Island arraignment.
After being informed that their trial for housebreaking and theft would take place on July 18, they were charged with the March 7 incident at Paradise Island.
It is claimed that, armed with a hammer and a knife the pair robbed Mrs Hill of several Mac computers and laptops, cell phones and other electronic items. The two were also charged with kidnapping her.
The incident is alleged to have occurred mid-morning when Mrs Hill returned home from taking her children to school.
It is reported that on entering her Paradise Island condominium, Mrs Hill was tied up with a rope. It was claimed that for the next three hours her home was ransacked.
It was also claimed that she was ordered to drive to a Carmichael Road bank to withdraw a sum of money.
Green and the 16-year-old girl were not required to enter a plea to the charges of armed robbery and abduction.
However, they pleaded not guilty to receiving the goods that were stolen from the armed robbery in question.
Green's older sister, Phillipa Green, was also charged with receiving some of the items.
However, while admitting to receiving some of the electronics, the "computer technician" said: "I did not know the items were stolen."
Phillipa Green returns to court today concerning her eligibility for bail while the other two were told that they would not get bail.
Chief Magistrate Gomez told the armed robbery accused that their case would be forwarded directly to Supreme Court for trial by way of a Voluntary Bill of Indictment. That Bill would be served on June 26, meanwhile they will be held at HM Prison, Fox Hill.
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