Tag: DUI
Suspect drunk drivers cause multiple car pile-ups
(CNS): Two women have been arrested on suspicion of DUI following two separate and unrelated major crashes in George Town this weekend in which the drivers caused multiple car pile-ups. The first happened on Saturday night at around 9:30pm on South Church Street and Boilers Road and the second at around 11pm on Sunday night along […]
Driver charged in 2016 road death
(CNS): A man was charged yesterday with causing death by dangerous driving and DUI in relation to a fatal road collision 14 months ago on Shamrock Road, Savannah, near to Countryside Shopping Village. The 54-year-old man was arrested at the scene where Denvil Mitchell (40) from West Bay died in the crash on 21 February 2016. Mitchell […]
Cops arrest 11 drunk drivers over weekend
(CNS): The RCIPS traffic unit was kept busy over the weekend arresting eleven people who were found to be drunk behind the wheel. The police said that the number of people caught drinking and driving was about twice the usual weekend average but that this was down to more proactive policing rather than a surge of […]
Police kept busy with weekend of petty crime
(CNS): The RCIPS was not called to handle any robberies, gun crime or serious violence this past weekend but officers were kept busy dealing with petty crime and drunk drivers. Officers made twenty-one arrests between 10 and 13 March, including four arrests for burglary and theft, four more for threatening offences such as direct threats […]
Suspect drunk driver ploughs into political board
(CNS Elections): Just days after political hopeful Kenneth Bryan erected his new campaign billboards in the George Town area, one of them was found in pieces Wednesday. But it was soon revealed that there was no foul play or political vandalism, which has been a factor in previous campaigns, and that the billboard may have […]
Truck hits light pole in latest major road smash
(CNS): Police are looking for witnesses to the latest serious collision on local roads, which happened at around 11:30 Saturday night on the Esterly Tibbetts Highway near Lakeside apartments. The crash involved a Ford Edge and a Ford pick-up truck, which ended up on its side, having smashed into a CUC pole. The driver of the truck, […]
Speeding lawyer lied to court again
(CNS): Simon Courtney, a corporate lawyer jailed last year for mowing down two tourists walking along the West Bay Road while he was driving a souped-up sports car after a champagne brunch, was accused of lying to the court again in another case of dangerous driving. Magistrate Valdis Foldats described Courtney as “evasive, arrogant and […]
Suspect bites cop during arrest
(CNS): Police management raised concerns Monday about the abuse and violence police officers endured over the weekend while carrying out arrests in the wake of three separate incidents. Suspects accused of DUI, burglary and one wanted on a warrant were involved in assaults on five police officers, one of whom was bitten, while others were […]
27 DUI arrests over the holidays
(CNS): During Operation Ice Crystals, the RCIPS holiday safety campaign which ran from 7 December through 2 January, police officers made a total of 27 DUI arrests, issued 30 citations for speeding, 39 citations for using a mobile phone while driving, 32 citations for failing to wear seat belts and 65 citations for expired registration. […]
Convicted lawyer back in court for old DUI
(CNS): Simon Courtney, a corporate attorney jailed this summer after mowing down and seriously injuring two tourists in his powerful sports car after a champagne brunch at the Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman in January 2015, was back in court this week. Courtney appeared for the final leg of a case relating to dangerous driving and DUI from […]
Driver jailed for two years for killing jogger
(CNS): Donovan Kellyman (26) was jailed Thursday after he received a two-year sentence for causing the death of Marcia Donaldson in April 2015 following an early morning collision in South Sound. The George Town man, who pleaded guilty in July to causing death while driving under the influence and careless driving, was taken into custody […]
