A 49-year-old woman was on Monday fined $50,000 for stealing another woman’s phone while at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Sonia Baksh of ‘B’ Field Sophia, Turkeyen appeared before City Magistrate Judy Latchman and confessed that on June 8 at GPHC she stole a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and accessories –totaling $150,000 property of Tomicia Hazelwood.
According to the facts read in court by Police Prosecutor, Shawn Gonsalves on the day in question Hazelwood went to use the washroom at GPHC when she accidently dropped her cellphone.
However, while the woman was leaving the washroom Baksh was entering the said room. A few moments later when the woman noticed that her phone was missing she returned to the washroom, but could not find the gadget.
Gonsalves pointed out that Hazelwood contacted Baksh and inquired about her phone however the woman denied having it. Hazelwood reported the matter at the police outpost at the hospital and the defendant was arrested. When ranks searched Baksh the cellphone was found in her possession.
“I is not a thief, I found it inside the toilet” the unrepresented defendant told the court. Magistrate Latchman after considering Baksh’s early guilty plea and the fact that it was her first offence ordered the woman to pay a fine of $50,000 or serve one month imprisonment.