Tag: violent crime
Armed muggers rob man at 7MB car park
(CNS): Two men, one armed with a gun and the other a knife, mugged a man in the Seven Mile Public Beach car park on Sunday night, the police have now confirmed. The street robbery topped a weekend of violent crime in which a couple were mugged and badly beaten on a street in West […]
Man denies violent, threatening burglary
(CNS): Michael Anthony Mendez (33) from George Town has pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated burglary and one of threatening to kill in connection with a violent break-in last month at the home of a woman he knew. Appearing in Grand Court on Friday morning, Mendez denied breaking into the home in Abbey […]
Son gets 9½ years for brutal attack on mother
(CNS): In court on Friday, Jeffrey William Powery (39) received a sentence of nine and a half years for a brutal attack on his mother, Jolene Powery (57 at the time), at their West Bay home in December 2018. Powery had left his mother for dead after beating her into a coma when his undiagnosed […]
Serial violent offender jailed for five years
(CNS): A West Bay man with a string of over 100 previous convictions who violently assaulted his nephew with a machete in January has been jailed for five years. Eladio Chesley Brown (54) badly wounded his nephew after the younger man came to the house to break up a violent argument between Brown and his […]
Police seek witnesses to parking lot fight
(CNS): A man underwent surgery early Sunday morning to treat a serious laceration to his arm that he sustained during a fight outside a bar on Shedden Road in George Town just after midnight. When police officers arrived at the scene, they found the injured man being helped in the parking lot outside the bar […]
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 […]
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 […]
Men accused of killing Robinson to go to trial
(CNS): Jonathan Alexander Woodhouse (28) from West Bay, Shaun Antonio Jackson (22) and Matthew Glasgow (26), both from Bodden Town, who are accused of murdering Randy Kelsey Robinson (37), will stand trial later this year. The three men have not yet formally pleaded guilty because of outstanding legal issues, but it was confirmed Friday that […]
Violent crime spike continues in GT
(CNS): Police are investigating a number of violent crimes that occurred over the last few days, including two armed robberies and a serious assault, all in George Town, as the current crime spike rolls on. On Monday morning, an undisclosed restaurant on Shedden Road, east of North Sound Road, was robbed by a masked gunman.
Two men shot outside 7MB bar, one critical
(CNS): Police are appealing for witnesses to a shooting Friday night outside the Jungle bar on the West Bay Road, near Seven Mile Public Beach. Around 10:50pm on 9 June, a masked man approached two men standing outside the bar. The culprit brandished a gun and opened fire on them, shooting one in the neck […]
Woman convicted in beauty salon brawl bailed
(CNS): Aisha Jamilah English (32), who was sentenced to 21 months in jail last year for stabbing her co-worker during a fight at a George Town beauty salon, has been released on bail. English has filed an appeal against her conviction based largely on an accusation of incompetent counsel. But the hearing has been delayed, […]
