By DENISE MAYCOCK
Tribune Freeport Reporter
dmaycock@tribunemedia.net
A FREEPORT man was charged in the Freeport Magistrate’s Court on Monday with housebreaking and stealing.
Chad Rolle appeared before Magistrate LaQuay Laing in Court #3 where he was charged with housebreaking, one count of stealing, and two counts of stealing from a dwelling house.
He pleaded guilty to the offences and was sentenced to four years in prison on the housebreaking charges, and three years for stealing from a dwelling house.
Rolle was also charged with additional offences before Magistrate Simone Brown in Court Four, including burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary, stealing from a dwelling house, and conspiracy to steal from a dwelling house.
He was not required to enter a plea on the charge of burglary and was remanded to March 9, 2023.
Rolle pleaded guilty to stealing from a dwelling house and was sentenced to three years at the Bahamas Department of Corrections.
All sentences are to run concurrently.
In other court news, Freeport resident Tarano Deveaux appeared before Magistrate LaQuay Laing. He was charged with five counts of housebreaking, four counts of stealing from a dwelling house, and two counts of stealing.
Deveaux pleaded not guilty. He was granted $20,000 bail, with six suretors. He was ordered to sign in at the Central Police Station on Mondays between 6am and 6pm and also ordered to be fitted with a monitoring device.
The case was adjourned to March 14, 2023.
Freeport resident Ray Hudson appeared before Senior Magistrate Charlton Smith in Court Two on a charge of causing harm.
He pleaded guilty and was fined $400, or one month in prison at the Bahamas Department of Corrections.
A 17-year-old Freeport youth appeared before Magistrate Simone Brown. He was charged with three counts of violation of his condition of bail by failing to charge the electronic monitoring device, and one count of violation of bail curfew.
He pleaded not guilty and was granted $6,000 bail with one or two suretors. The case was adjourned to February 14, 2023.
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