FORTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD, Jagnauth Ramcharran has been fined $40,000 with an alternative of 90 days’ imprisonment after he confessed to stealing 28 ducks from New Amsterdam businessman, Randolph Blair.

Gesticulating in the New Amsterdam Courtroom, Ramcharran said the virtual complainant had asked him for the ducks, but he had found just 17, and had since returned the domesticated birds to Blair.

Police Sergeant Phillip Sherriff, prosecuting, said that on December 20, 2014, the complainant had secured the ducks in his yard at Lot 91 Coburgh Street, Cumberland, East Canje; but on the following day, when he checked, he discovered that the birds were missing.

After he had received certain information, he reported the matter at the Reliance Police Station, and the defendant was contacted.

Before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs Marcus, Ramcharran said he got the ducks from the complainant’s yard.
“I took seven and I give him back sixteen. I don’t know if dem people eat out the rest. Mammy like Satan does come on me. I used to work with he [the complainant]; I worked with him for six years. I does tek he things but he never had me charged,” Ramcharran said.

In a comment invited by the court, Blair said the defendant lived next door, and although Ramcharran would steal from him repeatedly, he never had charges instituted against Ramcharran.

Ramcharran opted to serve the custodial penalty than pay the fine.