By PAVEL BAILEY
A WOMAN was remanded to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services for psychological evaluation after being charged with vagrancy yesterday.
Cherokee Wright, 39, stood before Senior Magistrate Samuel McKinney yesterday to face the charge.
On March 21 the accused was found loitering at the fire shed at the Carmichael Road Police Station, but was unable to give officers a satisfactory account of why she was there.
In court, Wright pleaded not guilty to the charge against her.
When Magistrate McKinney asked Wright why she was found loitering at the police station, she told the court that she was sitting there waiting for someone.
She also expressed her confusion over the situation as she said while officers passed and talked to her briefly during the incident, Wright wasn’t aware of any wrongdoing on her part until officers apprehended her on the matter later that day.
Wright further explained to the court that she lives near the police station with her parents in Flamingo Gardens.
Magistrate McKinney then asked the accused if she was on medication to which Wright said that she was, but that she sometimes “misses” taking it.
The prosecutor, Inspector Timothy Bain also indicated that the accused had been sentenced in court before.
It was in view of this information that the magistrate remanded her to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services for a psychological evaluation from a Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre doctor.
Wright’s case was adjourned to April 20.
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