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Man fined $150 for exposing himself while drunk at webshop

A MAN was fined yesterday after admitting to getting drunk and exposing himself outside a gaming house in Nassau Village earlier this week.

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Man accused of having loaded gun in car gets bail for $7,500

A MAN was granted bail after he was allegedly found with a loaded gun in his car near Kemp Road earlier this month.

Teen pump attendant shot in face at gas station has fractured skull

THE teenager shot in the face at a gas station on Tuesday night was disoriented but talkative after the attack, which has left him with a fractured skull and caused sales at the station to plummet.

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Man admits to four bail breaches, fined $2,000

A 20-year-old man was fined $2,000 after admitting to breaching his curfew while on release for a pending murder charge.

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Man charged with housebreaking while on bail for murder charge

ASSISTANT Chief Magistrate Carolyn Vogt Evans charged Samuel McCoy, 34, with housebreaking, stealing and receiving.

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American man fined $500 for having methamphetamines

AN American tourist was fined yesterday after admitting to having drugs in New Providence earlier this week.

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Did ‘common sense go out the window’, asks lawyer

ROMONA Farquharson-Seymour, a lawyer representing the estate of three men police killed at a mansion in Blair in 2019, asked an investigator during a Coroner’s Court inquest yesterday if “common sense goes out the window if officers are involved in a shooting investigation”.

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Three taken to hospital after shootings in Grand Bahama and New Providence

A 64-year-old Freeport man is in hospital and two men are in custody following a shooting incident in Freeport on Tuesday evening - while two males were shot in New Providence.

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‘I WAS FIRED FOR FOLLOWING RULES’: Adrian Gibson trial hears claim of WSC manager termination

AS Adrian Gibson’s criminal trial resumed yesterday, a Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) manager claimed she was “terminated” after refusing to pay companies awarded landscaping contracts because she lacked necessary documentation.

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Man accused of molesting 11-year-old girl in Eleuthera granted $5,000 bail

A 20-year-old man was granted $5,000 bail yesterday after he allegedly molested an 11-year-old girl in Eleuthera last week.

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Teen on bail for murder ordered to pay $1,000 fine for curfew breach

A 19-year-old boy was fined $1,000 after admitting to breaching his curfew while on release on a murder charge.

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American man sentenced to 30 months in prison on possession of $75k worth of hemp

AN American male was sentenced to two and half years in prison yesterday after admitting to having over $75,000 worth of marijuana in his airport luggage last Sunday.

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MOMS WEEP AS BLAIR SHOOTING CASE BEGINS: Inquest to probe police killing of three men in 2019

THE mothers of three men police killed in Blair Estates in 2019 burst into tears when close-ups of their sons’ bloody corpses were shown in court yesterday after the long-awaited inquest into the matter began.

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Man charged with last week’s murder at Parkgate Road

A 33-year-old man was remanded in custody yesterday after he allegedly murdered a man who was on bail for murder on Parkgate Road.

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Man remanded on charge of attempted rape of a woman

A 52-year-old man was remanded in custody yesterday after he allegedly tried to sexually assault a woman last week.