Tag: theft
Ailing suspect to be extradited to Hawaii in theft case
(CNS): An ailing 60-year-old local woman who absconded before she faced trial in Hawaii on theft and fraud charges is to be extradited to the United States after a magistrate ruled on Friday that there was no reason not to grant the request. Rosmarie Dellatore Bodden is accused of stealing some $70,000 from a 86-year-old […]
Police release images of stolen jewellery
(CNS): The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service recovered a number of items of jewellery, which are suspected to have been stolen, during a raid last week, including several watches. Police are asking the public to assist in identifying the items, which were recovered during the execution of a search warrant. Pictures of the items can […]
Denial of theft leads to lengthy jail term
(CNS): A woman who stole almost $58,000 from her employer was given a 45-month jail term Friday, when the court heard that she had shown no remorse for her crime and sought to blame others for a course of offending where she was stealing on a daily basis for more than five weeks while working […]
Ex-Logic worker faces jail over $57k theft
(CNS): A former employee with local communications company Logic is facing a term of imprisonment after she was convicted of stealing more than $57,000 from her employers when she worked as an accounts clerk. Cavenna Ellis (35), who is married with three young children, appeared in Summary Court Wednesday, where the crown prosecutor submitted to the […]
Ex-civil servant admits stealing over CI$18k
(CNS): A former civil servant has admitted stealing $18,890 from the Cayman Islands government. The money had been collected in rents for the use of various public buildings when she worked in the facilities management department. Trisha Jackson (38) pleaded guilty to stealing the cash over more than five years, from the end of 2011 to the […]
Three men deny charges in crime spree
(CNS): Elmer Watler Wright (24) and Caine and Nikel Thomas (17 and 22) all pleaded not guilty to a list of charges when they appeared in Grand Court Friday in connection with a two-day crime spree last June. The men are accused of stealing a car and damaging it when trying to escape, trying to break […]
Police on lookout for car burglar
(CNS): Police are on the lookout for a suspect after three cars were broken into sometime overnight between Wednesday and Thursday of last week in Prospect. In each case windows were smashed and the culprit made off with personal items such as bank cards and documents. Officers believe the thefts, which all happened in and […]
Turtle farm sacks employee over missing cash
(CNS): The Cayman Turtle Centre has revealed that an undisclosed but “significant” amount of cash has gone missing from several of its revenue sources and that a member of staff has been fired as a result. What appears to be a major theft has been reported to police but it is not clear if anyone has […]
Tennis club’s former boss charged with list of crimes
(CNS): Police have confirmed that Rob Seward (46), the former general manager and head pro-trainer at the Cayman Islands Tennis Club, has been charged with multiple counts of theft, forgery, obtaining property by deception, uttering a forged document, and converting, disguising or concealing proceeds of criminal conduct in connection with cash taken from the club’s bank […]
Thief makes off with dive gear from WB home
(CNS): Police are asking the public for help in tracking down diving equipment that was swiped Tuesday from a porch of a house on Uncle Bob Road in West Bay. Police said they received a report yesterday morning that two bags of dive gear, a pair of Mares Avanti Quattro fins and two pairs of […]
$2.2 million scammer ordered to pay back cash
(CNS): Michelle Bouchard (57) has been ordered to pay back the money she stole from James Bruce Handford, an octogenarian whom she scammed out of millions of dollars while she shared his home. The Canadian national, who is serving a ten-year term, reduced from 12 by the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal, will pay more than […]