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Police investigate armed robberies

POLICE are investigating the circumstances surrounding two separate armed robberies that took place within hours of each other on Sunday. According to reports, around 10am yesterday a gunman entered a gaming establishment on Baillou Hill and St Vinc

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Woman charged with causing death of baby girl

A 40-year-old woman who was recently released from the Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre was charged in a magistrate’s court on Friday with causing the death of a baby girl early last year.

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Dominican man charged over fraudulent Bahamian visa

A Dominican accused of possessing a fraudulent Bahamian document was charged in the Freeport Magistrate’s Court this week.

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Man and woman charged in connection with $80,000 drug seizure

A MAN and a woman were charged in a Magistrate’s Court on Friday in connection with the seizure of almost $80,000 worth of marijuana from a home in western New Providence earlier this week.

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Pair held after marijuana plants found in Coral Harbour home

A MAN and woman were taken into police custody after 173 marijuana plants and several packages of suspected marijuana were found at a home they were in at Coral Harbour.

Man convicted of aiding killer tells court he is innocent

A MAN sentenced to almost 20 years in prison for aiding the person responsible for killing the teenage son of convicted drug traffickers Dwight and Keva Major yesterday said he feels like “giving up” for being imprisoned for a crime he insist he had no involvement in.

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Pit Bull suspects released

POLICE have released the owner of the pit bull at the centre of a viral dog killing incident due to insufficient evidence.

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Police ‘fined’ $120k for refusing to return car

THE government has been ordered to pay a man more than $120,000 in damages because police failed to release his car from custody after charges against him were dropped.

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Dwight Major charged with another man over $280k of marijuana

Dwight Major and another man were arraigned in a Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with being found with over $280,000 worth of marijuana earlier this week with plans to distribute the drugs to others.

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Man convicted of aiding killer tells court he is innocent

A MAN sentenced to almost 20 years in prison for aiding the person responsible for killing the teenage son of convicted drug traffickers Dwight and Keva Major yesterday said he feels like “giving up” for being imprisoned for a crime he insist he had

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Man accused of Eugene Woodside murder granted $50,000 bail

THE man accused of murdering eight-year-old Eugene Woodside during the course of a double-shooting last year has been granted $50,000 bail ahead of his 2020 trial by a Supreme Court judge.Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson granted Lloyd Minnis bail in tha

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283 pounds of marijuana seized in stop and search

POLICE seized 283 pounds of marijuana yesterday morning after a vehicle stop and search. Shortly before 4am Drug Enforcement Unit officers assisted by Mobile Division officers stopped and searched a Nissan March with two men inside at, Tonique Willia

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Man found not guilty of sex with underage boy

A SUPREME Court jury has acquitted a man previously accused of having sex with an underage teenage boy three years ago.The jury found David John McKenzie not guilty by a vote of 6 to 3 of the single count of sexual intercourse with a minor of the sa

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Knife killer shot dead at party

TWO men on Grand Bahama are dead and a senior immigration officer, a relative of one of the victims, is in custody assisting police with their investigation.

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Crown 'wrong' to detain man while it sought evidence

IT was “not fair or just” for Crown authorities to have detained a man for over a year while it “sought to put its house in order” and obtain the necessary evidence linking him to an alleged murder plot which was executed two years ago, the Court of