REPEAT offender Dwayne Anthony James, alias ‘Hyker’ was sentenced to nine months imprisonment after he was found guilty on a charge of larceny from the person by Magistrate Rabidranauth Singh at the Albion Court.

Police Sergeant Phillip Sherrif, prosecuting, related that on September 13, 2012, Shabanie Narsingh of Palmyra Village left home with $100,000 in her handbag.

The woman, who was accompanied by family members, proceeded to Rose Hall Town where she intended to do shopping. However, after exiting a vehicle in the vicinity of Rose Hall Town Arch Road, she observed James approaching her and before she knew what was happening, he had picked the money out of her handbag and escaped.

An alarm was raised but James vanished within seconds. A report was then made at the Rose Hall Police Outpost. James was subsequently arrested while he was walking in the New Amsterdam Township.