Bahamian woman 'caught smuggling $50,000 of cocaine from Panama'
A BAHAMIAN woman is in police custody after she was caught attempting to smuggle $50,000 worth of cocaine into the country from Panama in several home appliances.
Death threat for victim hours before 'execution'
BUSINESSMAN Cedric Hepburn received a death threat from an unknown caller several hours before he was gunned down at Fortune Bay Drive, according to close relatives who revealed that he had been getting threats by phone.
Convicted double rapist to be sentence next month
OSCAR Ingraham will face sentencing next month having been unanimously convicted yesterday by a Supreme Court jury of the home-invasion, armed robbery and rape of a woman on the night of an island-wide power-outage. At that hearing on June 19 he also will be sentenced for another rape two years earlier.
Drug lord questions jurisdiction of court to fine or jail him
A drug lord is now questioning the Court of Appeal’s jurisdiction to stipulate that he goes to prison for two more years if he fails to pay a $250,000 fine after upholding his conviction for the possession of $1.2m worth of marijuana.
OSCAR INGRAHAM GUILTY OF RAPE, ARMED ROBBERY IN POWER OUTAGE
Oscar Ingraham has been unanimously convicted by a Supreme Court jury of the home-invasion, armed robbery and rape of a woman on the night of an island-wide power-outage, in May 2012.
Shock over Freeport killing
A WELL-KNOWN resident of Smith’s Point was gunned down as he and his companion were on their routine daily walk in the Fortune Bay Drive area of Freeport yesterday evening.
71-year-old man arrested after marijuana worth $250,000 found
ABOUT 2,500 marijuana plants, with an estimated street value of $250,000, have been discovered in Crossing Rock, Abaco, police reported yesterday.
Double murder sentencing delayed
SENTENCING of a man unanimously convicted of a double murder has been delayed by five weeks. George Williams, 34, appeared before Justice Roy Jones yesterday to learn his fate having been convicted by a jury five months earlier of the April 23, 2008, murders of 32-year-old Andy Weekes and 29-year-old Terrel Mingo.
Verdict due today in Ingraham rape case
THE prosecution’s closing statement to a jury expected to deliver a verdict today on whether Oscar Ingraham raped a woman in her home the night of an island-wide power outage urged them to “take the evidence of the silent witness”.
'Well-known Freeport resident' is shot dead
FREEPORT - Operator of CLA Trucking Cedric Hepburn, a well-known resident of Smith's Point, is believed to be the victim of a shooting on Wednesday evening.
Pair accused of defamation after publication of nude pictures
A FILLIPINO man faces up to two years imprisonment as he and a woman accomplice are accused of planning to defame his ex-girlfriend by posting several nude images of her on Facebook.
Jet ski operator charged with murder
A JET ski operator appeared in Magistrates Court yesterday accused of committing the country’s second murder for 2014 and for twice trying to kill the victim’s friend, who was shot at on New Year’s night, and again three months later.
'I was with my girlfriend when woman was raped'
OSCAR Ingraham denied being a predator and rapist yesterday, moments after telling a jury that he was with his girlfriend the night a woman was raped during an island-wide power outage.
Four accused of rape walk free
FOUR men accused of rape walked free from Supreme Court yesterday after the complainant was among a number of witnesses that failed to turn up for the case.
Rape suspect: Did I look like a teddy bear?
“DO YOU agree that I looked like a teddy bear when you saw me?” was the question a man accused of rape asked a physician in Supreme Court yesterday concerning a medical examination he performed on him.
