LORENSO Obryon (no address given) was yesterday fined $25,000 with the alternative of nine months imprisonment for simple larceny.

He pleaded guilty, before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle, to stealing a bicycle, valued $12,000, property of Paul Willis, on April 7.

Obryon said he saw the bike in front of a Regent Street, Georgetown store and took it because he thought it was his cousin’s that was recently stolen and it was just a case of misunderstanding.

But Police Inspector Denise Griffith, prosecuting, said the defendant was previously charged with a similar offence and gave the same narrative.