Burglar jailed for over 5 years for stealing safe
(CNS): Romario Desmond Brown (22) has been sentenced to five years and four months in prison for making off with a safe during an aggravated burglary in South Sound last year as well as a number of other burglaries. Brown was one of three men who, armed with a crowbar, broke into a home in Bonnie Crescent in February 2022 and took over $125,000 worth of valuables that were inside the safe after forcing the owner, who returned home during the burglary, into a bathroom.
Although Brown identified his criminal associates, who he said coerced him into a spree of break-ins, no one else has been charged in relation to the offences, though investigations have continued.
Because he gave the police the names and details of the other burglars, Brown has been harassed since he was remanded in custody eleven months ago and has had to be segregated from the general prison population for his own safety. This was one of a number of mitigating factors that Justice Phillip St John-Stevens took into account as he delivered his sentencing ruling on Tuesday.
The judge said he believed Brown was not the ringleader but had been involved with more sophisticated criminals who had put pressure on him to commit the crime spree. However, the judge noted that he still had to be held accountable for his actions.
Brown had been tracked down by the police because he was wearing an electronic tag as he was on probation, and investigators connected him to the safe burglary through DNA. He had also admitted to three other break-ins that took place in the days before the incident where the safe was stolen and had told the police that all these crimes involved the same gang of burglars.
During the other burglaries, which took place in George Town at two different locations and three different apartments, Brown and his criminal associates stole just under $20,000 worth of property. On 31 January 2022, he broke into an address in Glen Eden Road, where he stole jewellery and electronics worth over $18,000. The following day he entered an address on Shamrock Road, where he broke into two different apartments and made off with a variety of goods and cash worth over $1,200.
Despite his admissions and the likelihood he was coerced, the case against him was aggravated by his long rap sheet of some 17 previous similar offences, and the fact he was on probation and wearing an electronic tag.
The judge said he started his sentence calculation at ten years but had come to the conclusion that Brown “was not the prime mover”. That and the assistance Brown had provided as well as the situation that has created for him at HMP Northward led to a reduction. With a further cut for his early admissions and guilty pleas, the judge arrived at a term of 64 months, with all other related sentences running concurrently and time already served to be deducted.
- Fascinated
- Happy
- Sad
- Angry
- Bored
- Afraid
And WORC will force us to hire this dip shit one day
The real question is why haven’t the rest of them been prosecuted for the burglary or the intimidation? Who is protecting them? Police, cps or MP? If nothing else the last few years have taught us that senior civil servants families and MP’s and their families are immune from prosecution even when publicly caught in the act.
Like the bypass road and the new port
He did all of that and only got 5 years! I am curious to know they they found all the property and returned it fo the owners. If not he should never get out of prison.
Allowing for the usual early release halfway through sentence and the time spent on remand, he will be out burglarizing again in under 2 years.
When I was in quarantine during the shutdown, I was told that if I left my house my less than sophia electronic wrist tag would alert the authorities and I would be arrested. Yet this guy wearing a prison services standard electronic tag was free to roam the island breaking into houses. WTF. Do the tags not work or does no one bother monitoring them? And in either case why do we let people out on probation with them because they sure as hell aren’t protect society.
Foil paper bobo
This is what happens when we deny young Caymanian men good job opportunites.
yawn. there is every opportunity for young caymanian men to be successful here, just look around there are many great examples. just it takes a lot of hard work, good guidance and a bit of luck.
Bullshit. A good person does everything within their power and the bounds of legality to feed their family. Just as I have done.
You are saying that if young Caymanians aren’t GIVEN benefit, then they are justified in turning to crime.
You suck. Your worldview is broken.
No, chile. This is what happens when you neglect your children and don’t give them a sound assin’ so they can learn the first time.
What does this have to do with a country in South America?
@4:09 PM.. Yawn.. you’re not funny.. it is Caymanian vernacular but you already knew that…
No it’s not. It’s an attempt at Jamaicanisation.
Bull****. Most young Caymanians have the exact same education and job opportunities but they are honest and decent people.
Stop breeding criminals and blaming others instead of yourselves!
Bit difficult when they say they want to be ‘architects’ but can’t be bothered to graduate High School.
Hahaha you’re pointing finger must be tired
If good job opportunities “aren’t available” then take crap ones? Life is tough for everyone except people born into wealth.
Use me for example: Career I don’t like but making just enough to cover my own expenses (barely). Probably won’t even realistically be able to afford kids ever or travel as much as I’d like but that’s the life I was born into, just making the best of it.
It’s depressing admittedly, however I’m not a burden to anyone but myself, I’m not out traumatizing the local populace and taking things THEY worked for, and I don’t have the prospects of prison time in the back of my mind so who’s really “winning” in the grand scheme of things?
Caymanians really need to start being more accountable for themselves and realizing that being born here doesn’t legally/magically grant you access to jobs. You have to go get them, and first you need to be qualified for them, which is no-one’s responsibility but your own.
This is what happens when we don’t teach sex education in our public schools.
Point at everyone else rather than have a look within. Textbook.
#caymanway
justification?
Your way of thinking is idiotic just as this young man’s selfishness.
Too hot and too hard to work. Make more money stealing from others.
NO, this comment is the reason why it seems to be acceptable for dipshits to feel they can commit such crimes.
STOP coddling your damn kids as they will become as entitled as you!
He’s 22 and has 19 priors? How is that even possible? Looking at you judges… Next, when the guy cooperates, who let all the convicts at Northward know? Looking at you popos… Last, why no charges against the others? Still looking at you popos, and the DPP too.
no charges for the others because they prob family to the police
You can look at the popos all you want, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist, or even a scummy thief, to figure out where incriminating evidence and testimony came from.
Contrary to popular belief, it appears that the DPP and police have done their part repeatedly. The issue here is the lenient sentencing in the past, or the wretched alternatives that have failed this young man.
I have met him on occasion. There’s only himself to blame for these problems.
5 years is nothing, especially with good behaviour. Joke
17 prior offenses!!