A bus conductor was yesterday taken before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts charged with larceny.Twenty-one-year old Ronald Hercules of 58 Front Road, West Ruimveldt, had been charged indictably for stealing from the dwelling house of Keon Tappin – one I-phone valued at $65,000, one Blackberry cellular phone valued at $45,000 and a Samsung Galaxy valued at $45,000 – all to a total value of $155,000.
But on application by Police Prosecutor, Sergeant Neville Jeffers, the Administration of Justice Act (AJA) was being applied with the accused accepting the charges and pleading guilty.
According to the court particulars, on October 14 the virtual complainant left the defendant at his house and when he returned he discovered the items missing.
Tappin confronted the defendant and the latter returned only two of the phones. The matter was reported and the defendant was arrested and charged.
During the course of the court proceeding, the defendant stated that he saw the cellular phones and took them for his own benefit.
The complainant told the magistrate that he did not want to proceed with the charges as he had come to a settlement agreement with the defendant. The magistrate ordered Hercules to compensate Tappin in the sum of $40,000 by October 30 or face a default four months in prison.