A MECHANIC was on Wednesday found guilty of robbery under arms by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and will return to court on March 16 for a probation report and sentence. According to particulars of the charge, Quason Roberts, 22, of Tucville Housing Scheme, Georgetown, on October 18 at East La Penitence, Georgetown, being in the company of another person and armed with a gun robbed Teresa Fredericks of one Samsung Galaxy cellular S5 phone, one purse and $10,000 in cash.
Roberts was also charged with two other robbery-under -arms offences. However, those charges were dismissed against him by Magistrate Latchman on Tuesday, February 24.
One of the dismissed charges stated that on October 18 at East La Penitence, he robbed Jermaine Knights of one Premio Motor car valued $2.8 M.
The other dismissed charge said on the same day at East La Penitence, being armed with a gun, he also robbed Knights of one Samsung touch cellular phone and $43,000 in cash.
At yesterday’s proceedings, the magistrate informed Roberts that she will rely on the prosecution’s case. She also told Roberts that she will put no weight on the evidence given by his two witnesses, who were his mother and his girlfriend.

Magistrate Latchman also said that she strongly believed Fredricks when she told the court that she had positively identified Roberts during the time of the robbery, since she had looked at him for four minutes and she had known him for one year, because he worked at Brian’s Mechanic Shop.

During the trial, both the mother and the girlfriend told the court that at the time of the robbery Roberts was at home. However, Fredricks’s purse was inside the car at the time of the robbery.