Courts
WB man admits airguns but denies firearms charges
(CNS): A local man who was rounded up in a West Bay drug-and-firearms raid has denied possession of two unlicensed revolvers and ammunition but admitted having two air pistols and a component part when he appeared in court Friday. Chadwick Cameron Ebanks (40) pleaded guilty to the possession of tw [...]
Court appoints dedicated legal aid boss
(CNS): Decisions about who will receive legal aid for their court cases will now be decided by a new director. Formerly a senior associate with a local law firm and a legal aid attorney since 2004, Stacy Parke began her new job at Judicial Administration Monday. With a budget in excess of $2.6 milli [...]
Realtor guilty of stealing over $51K
(CNS): It took a jury of four women and three men less than an hour and a half Thursday to find Antonio (Toni) Paolini (77) guilty on one count of theft in relation to money he took from a client who wanted to purchase a piece of land but spent it on rent in an […] [...]
Woman charged with stabbing partner
(CNS): A George Town woman was due in court Thursday, facing charges of inflicting GBH and wounding in connection with a stabbing at her home Tuesday. Police say the 35-year-old woman stabbed her partner with a kitchen knife. She was arrested after police answered the 911 call to the couple’s [...]
Property broker duped client out of $51K
(CNS): A local real estate broker who took CI$51,600 from a woman who wanted to buy a piece of land on Grand Cayman used the cash to try to prop up his own business and duped the woman into converting the payment into a loan which was never paid back. Prosecutor Toyin Salako told a […] [...]
Sexual biter evades jail in ‘unique’ case
(CNS): Fabian Dominique McField (26), who was found guilty of indecent assault after he bit his girlfriend’s vagina so hard during oral sex it bled, was given a chance by a judge Thursday, when he was given a probation order. In what the judge said was an unusual and unique case, McField had [...]
Bodden Town man denies prison gun allegations
(CNS): Matthew Whittaker (26) from Bodden Town, who was arrested just outside Northward prison in May after police recovered a handgun following a report, has been charged with possession of an imitation handgun with intent to resist arrest and possession of ammunition. He pleaded not guilty to bo [...]
Coach gets 18 months for ‘sexting’ with teen
(CNS) UPDATED: Trinidadian-born track star Ato Stephens was found guilty Thursday of abusing an ICT network in connection with a catalog of indecent messages he sent to a teenager he was coaching at his Cayman-based athletics club in 2015/16. But he was acquitted of two counts of indecent assault an [...]
Messages point to coach’s guilt
(CNS): The direct evidence against Trinidad track star, Ato Stephens, accused of indecently assaulting one of his charges while coaching athletics comes only from the teenage girl but the director of public prosecutions said the stream of indecent messages he sent to her also point to his guilt. As [...]
Track student had crush, coach claims
(CNS): Ato Stephens told the court that he believed the teenage girl who has accused him of sexually assaulting her had a crush on him when he was her running coach. When the track star from Trinidad appeared in the dock Monday, he denied ever touching the young girl or exposing himself to her. He [ [...]
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