A VENDOR who resides at the East La Penitence Night Shelter was on Wednesday given a two-year suspended sentence by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry for simple larceny, committed at a Shell Gas station. 

John Hercules, 39,pleaded guilty to the charge that said on February 11 at Regent and King Streets, Georgetown, he stole one bottle of cream soda, one bottle of Vita Malt, and one bottle of Smalta, together valued $680, property of the Shell Gas Station.
The unrepresented man told the court that he was previously charged for littering.
However, Police Corporal Bharat Mangru, prosecuting, informed the court that Hercules had been charged with simple larceny two years ago.
Mangru said on the day in question, Hercules went to the supermarket section of the said gas station and consumed the articles mentioned in the charge. He subsequently exited without paying for them.
He was also ordered to repay the total cost for the articles mentioned in the charge.