Courts
Court shows mercy to first time violent offender
(CNS): Jose Yamany Carter-Ramirez (25), who stabbed another man in the chest outside a George Town bar in December last year, was sentenced to just 15 months in jail after the court partially suspended a 23-month sentence. Carter-Ramirez, from West Bay, stabbed the victim after his girlfriend accused the man of an assault while they […]
Neighbour jailed after setting jeep ablaze
(CNS): A Bodden Town man who has a volatile relationship with his neighbour was sentenced on Friday to eleven months in jail for arson after he set the man’s jeep on fire earlier this year. Fernando Lopez Thompson (45) was also handed a second concurrent 11-month sentence for harassment against the same neighbour following threats […]
Police charge suspect over car break-ins
(CNS): A 47-year-old man from George Town, who police believe is responsible for a recent spate of break-ins and thefts from vehicles in the capital, has been charged following his arrest on Saturday. The man, who appeared in court Monday, was charged with just one offence, but further charges are being investigated. He has since […]
Son left mother for dead after psychotic episode
(CNS): Jeffrey William Powery (39) appeared in court Friday for a long overdue sentencing hearing following his conviction for GBH wounding with intent in relation to a brutal attack on his mother in December 2018. Powery had left Jolene Powery for dead after beating her into a coma at her home in West Bay when […]
Webb sentencing in FIFA case delayed for 14th time
(CNS): According to correspondence seen by CNS from the Eastern District of New York courts, the sentencing hearing for the disgraced local football boss, Jeffery Web, has been postponed for the fourteenth time. Webb, the former president of CONCACAF and the Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA) and former VP of FIFA, was convicted in December […]
Tourist jailed over 0.09gm of fentanyl
(CNS): A tourist caught at the airport earlier this year with 90 milligrams of fentanyl powder in his backpack was remanded in custody after being convicted in Summary Court of drug smuggling. Adrian Frederick Scales (26) from the United States was found guilty this week by Magistrate Philippa McFarlane, who said he had deliberately tried […]
Man denies sexual assault at tattoo studio
(CNS): Yeng Chang Guerra, a tattoo artist, has denied allegations of sexual assault against a woman in December at the Savage Ink Studios on the West Bay Road. When he appeared in Grand Court last week, Guerra pleaded not guilty to three counts of indecent assault and assault by penetration. He was bailed to return […]
Co-pilot, in jail more than 1,550 days, fights extradition
(CNS): A man who arrived in the Cayman Islands as the co-pilot of a private jet more than four years ago has been in jail since then, despite being found not guilty of gold smuggling here in 2020, as he fights extradition to the United States. Juan Carlos Gonzales Infante (60), a Venezuelan national who […]
Driver pleads not guilty to murder in road-rage killing
(CNS): Bryan Welcome (41) pleaded not guilty to murder when he appeared in Grand Court on a Zoom link from HMP Northward Friday. The local grocery shop owner denied deliberately killing Omar Ryan when he ran over him in a car on 8 July along David Foster Road, close to the airport. Just before Ryan […]
Russian man denies gun smuggling charges
(CNS): Anton Parygin (45), a Russian national with Canadian and Israeli citizenship who brought three guns with him when he moved to the Cayman Islands for work, has denied a long list of firearm-related charges. Parygin was arrested at Owen Roberts International Airport in January with a 9mm automatic pistol, a 9mm semi-automatic rifle, and […]
Corrupt ex-cop guilty of helping killer
(CNS): A former auxiliary police officer has been found guilty of perverting, obstructing and defeating justice, as well as breach of trust, after he tried to help a murderer dodge justice for killing his own son. In court Wednesday, Justice Roger Chapple found that Courtney Alphanso Levy (46) had been “in league with Roger Bush […]
