Tag: disorderly conduct
Carnival goes off safely with only four arrests
(CNS): Police said the carnival weekend passed relatively safely this year, and officers made only four arrests on Saturday during the festivities. The RCIPS said that even though the events were busy and well attended, there were very few incidents. Officers responded to just two incidents over the course of the day. The first arrests […]
Protestor conditionally discharged for minor offences
(CNS): A local woman who is well known for her attention-grabbing protests over the way she has been treated by medical and other authorities was conditionally discharged on Tuesday in relation to charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest during one of her protests in 2022. Although Lovell Marriott (53) was found guilty of the […]
Pageant queen guilty of assault and all other charges
(CNS): The reigning Miss Universe Cayman Islands, Tiffany LeAnn Conolly (24), from West Bay, has been convicted of six criminal counts of assault, damage to property and disorderly conduct. The guilty verdicts were delivered Thursday by Magistrate Philippa McFarlane, who said the case against Conolly was “overwhelming”. The pageant queen had denied assaulting her former […]
Bracker faces list of charges over angry rampage
(CNS): Geoff Scott (24) appeared in court Wednesday facing eight charges in relation to what has been described on social media as an angry rampage at the family home in Cayman Brac at the weekend. Scott was arrested on Sunday after an altercation with a man understood to be his brother. His is charged with […]
Beat officer assaulted on George Town street
(CNS) A police officer on foot patrol on Shedden Road, George Town, was assaulted on Tuesday. A man approached the officer and his partner in an aggressive way, assaulted the officer and then fled towards Mary Street. A police spokesperson said that additional officers were called to assist and the 32-year-old George Town man was […]
Cops TASER unruly passenger at traffic stop
(CNS): Police at a traffic checkpoint in Bodden Town Monday night, shot a 21-year-old man with a stun gun while he was sitting in the passenger seat of a car pulled over by the officers. The man has been arrested for disorderly conduct, obstructing police, resisting arrest, and assaulting police. According to the RCIPS, the […]
Brac man detained in GC after violent incidents
(CNS): A 45-year-old man from Cayman Brac was held at the detention centre in Fairbanks on Grand Cayman over the weekend in order to protect the victim after his arrest following a disturbance at an address in Pearl Avenue. Police were called to the location on Thursday, 21 October, where the man who is known […]
Bush begins 60 day evening curfew
(CNS): Speaker McKeeva Bush began a two-month long evening house curfew at his West Bay home on Monday, as the sentence handed down for his conviction for assault by Magistrate Kirsty-Ann Gunn came into force. Meanwhile, Premier Alden McLaughlin indicated that government was unlikely to do anything to remove Bush from his prestigious office, regardless […]
Speaker’s behaviour shameful, says magistrate
(CNS): House Speaker McKeeva Bush is under home curfew after a magistrate suspended a short two month prison sentence and fined him $700 on Monday for his conviction for assault and disorderly conduct. Magistrate Kirsty-Ann Gunn described his behaviour as reprehensible and said she needed to send a message to the community. Bush has also […]
Court urged not to record Bush’s conviction
(CNS): A magistrate was urged not to record a conviction against House Speaker McKeeva Bush for what was said to be an “appalling” assault at a beach bar on 21 February on the female manager. Bush was described as “extremely intoxicated” and unable to recall most of the events. But the court saw CCTV footage […]
CMR owner admits swearing during protest
(CNS): Sandra Hill, the owner of Cayman Marl Road, has pleaded guilty to the final charge in a list of cases prosecutors have pursued against her recently relating to posts on her website. Hill has admitted she used bad language while reporting on a land dispute protest last year. But the crown has now dropped […]
