Archive for March 6th, 2023
ODPP pays $64k bill after failed seizure of legit cash
(CNS): The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions was ordered to pay US$64,000 in compensation to a Brazilian businessman after the office tried unsuccessfully to freeze and seize his assets in the Cayman Islands even though he was able to show that the money was legitimately earned. The order followed a decision by the […]
Men admit their part in $500k turtle farm fraud
(CNS): Two men have pleaded guilty to fraud and two others have been released by the court in a long-running corruption case relating to the Cayman Turtle Centre (CTC). Prosecutors said Monday that they had accepted pleas entered by Mark Manderson (41) and Jeremy Williams (39) in relation to a conspiracy in which Manderson is […]
Driver admits killing motorcyclist in West Bay crash
(CNS): Jordon Telford (39) from West Bay pleaded guilty on Friday to causing the death of Shemiah Grant in a collision in the district almost two years ago. The case has dragged through the courts as a result of the time it takes for accident reconstruction reports to be finalised. However, Telford finally answered the […]
Suspected Russian gun smuggler working in Cayman
(CNS): Anton Parygin, a Russian national with both Israeli and Canadian citizenship who is accused of gun smuggling, is working in the Cayman Islands, according to information revealed in court on Friday. Parygin appeared in the dock in Grand Court in relation to three firearms and ammunition found in his luggage at Owen Roberts Airport […]
Man sustains head injury during fight in North Side
(CNS): A North Side man was taken to hospital on Thursday night with a head wound after another man struck him in the head with what police said was “an object” during a fight with another man at an undisclosed address. Police and emergency services were called to the scene, where the injured man was […]
Man exposes himself to women and police
(CNS): A 30-year-old man from West Bay has been charged with criminal trespass, three counts of intentional harassment, alarm or distress and damaging an electronic monitoring device after exposing himself at a condo complex on West Bay Road and inside a police patrol car last weekend. Two women had called the police after a man […]
Armed robbers strike at woman’s GT home
(CNS): Two armed masked men robbed a woman at gunpoint in her own yard on Friday evening and fired a shot at the scene, proving that one of the firearms was loaded and working. The home invasion took place around 8.30pm on 3 March on Brushy Avenue in George Town. The woman was socialising with […]
