By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A MAN who admitted damaging the door and window of a Rubis service station on Mackey Street was sentenced yesterday to 14 months in prison.
James Touissaint, 41, caused $1,042.31 worth of damage to the station’s front door and glass window on November 4.
He was also charged with unlawful possession. Prosecutors allege that on November 7 he was found with two silver 2017 Apple iPad Pro second-generation tablets, reasonably suspected of being stolen, and could not explain to police how he came to have them.
Touissaint could not enter his pleas aloud before Magistrate Abigail Farrington. He explained in writing that he had damaged his vocal cords in a traffic accident and cannot speak.
He pleaded guilty to both charges. However, he did not accept the prosecution’s facts on the unlawful possession charge, so a not guilty plea was entered on that count.
He returns to court for trial on that charge on April 5, 2027.
Reserve Inspector Deveaux prosecuted.
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