Jury visit to site where cop was shot delayed by two weeks as key witness unavailable
A jury’s request to visit the place in Bain Town where a 19-year-old was gunned down by police almost 10 years ago was put off by two weeks yesterday due to the unavailability of a key witness.
Man charged with attempting to kill two police officers
A 29-year-old Pinewood resident was charged in Magistrate’s Court yesterday with attempting to murder two police officers with a high powered semi-automatic weapon last week.
19-year-old charged with having sex with girl, 13
A 19-year-old man accused of having sex with a minor was arraigned in the Freeport Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
70-year-old accused of raping eight-year-old girl
A 70-year-old Freeport man accused of sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl was arraigned in the Freeport Magistrate’s Court yesterday, however he maintained that he did not commit the crime.
Five women fined for overstaying
FIVE foreign women—three Venezuelans, a Guyanese, and a Jamaican—were collectively fined $5,000 for overstaying in the Bahamas, with the Jamaican woman said to have worn out her welcome by almost two years.
Final six poachers free to go
THE remaining six of 46 Dominican poachers previously convicted of plundering Bahamian waters of some 33,000 pounds of fish last year are now free men.
70-year-old faces charges of sexually assaulting girl, 8
A 70-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl is expected to be formally arraigned in the Freeport Magistrate’s Court this morning.
Three immigrants in court
THREE immigrants were arraigned in the Freeport Magistrate’s Court for various breaches of the Immigration Act.
Supreme Court to rule on sacking of Muslim officer
THE Court of Appeal has ordered that a Supreme Court judge is to determine whether former Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade was right to fire a police constable because of his unwillingness to compromise a key component of his Muslim faith.
Visa scam ‘Mr Fix-It’ jailed for five months
THE Mr Fix-It at the centre of a US visa scam involving The Bahamas Immigration Department has been jailed for five months by a federal court.
Cocaine dealer has sentence reduced for guilty plea
A man previously sentenced to three years in prison for being caught with 10 ounces of cocaine he planned to distribute has effectively had his sentence reduced to time served because he was not afforded a “rebate” for admitting to the offence.
Four taken to hospital with gunshot wounds
A MAN shot his girlfriend and three other people at a home on Cowpen Road yesterday leaving them in hospital, police said.
HELP COPS FIND THE CHILDREN SNATCHER
ROYAL Bahamas Police Force investigators have no leads and are challenged with getting people to come forward with information that could lead to the arrest of the person responsible for the abduction of three boys on Thursday.
Four injured in shooting at Cowpen Road home
Police are investigating after four people were shot in a house on Cowpen Road early on Sunday morning.
Four C’s Adventures owner and captain to stand trial next year
FOUR C’s Adventures owner and one of his captains will stand trial in 2020 over allegations of negligence in the fatal tour boat explosion last year.
