A 30-year-old man was on Monday found not guilty by Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman for the $3M armed robbery committed on a BK International supervisor who was attacked outside the compound of the Ministry of Finance on Main Street in 2016.

Samuel Adams was charged in 2017 for the offence which alleged that while in the company of others and armed with a gun, he discharged a loaded firearm at John Brian on December 5, 2016, at Urquhart Street.
It was alleged too that on the same date and at the very location Adams and others, armed with guns, robbed Brian of $3 million.

Adams’ lawyer, Dexter Todd, during trial maintained that the evidence presented by Police Prosecutor, Shawn Gonsalves was insufficient and requested that the matter be dismissed.
Magistrate Latchman ruled that although there was a caution statement presented in the court by a police officer, that evidence was inadmissible since it was taken five days after Adams was arrested by the police.

Latchman further noted that the evidence and details given in the caution statement could have been fabricated by the police, since the officer was in possession of the CCTV footage days before.
The Magistrate added that the faces of the robbers and the licence plate of the white get-away car used were not seen on the CCTV footage.

Based upon the entire evidence, Adams was found not guilty of both charges.
According to reports, on the day in question, the victim was walking on Urquhart Street when two bandits, one of whom was armed with a handgun, exited a white Toyota Premio and approached him.

Brian, upon seeing the men, ran to the Ministry of Finance’s gate, where he threw a haversack, which reportedly contained $3M in cash, into the compound.
The robbers ran into the compound, collected the bag and were exiting when the victim tried retrieving it. In the process, the armed suspect shot the victim, hitting him in his right thigh.

However, Adams is currently on bail in a similar matter where he and an alleged accomplice, Kurt Kendell, are before Magistrate Latchman also.
The charge alleged that the duo on February 13, 2017, at Mandela Avenue, Georgetown, discharged a loaded firearm at Christopher Marks with intent to murder him.

According to reports, on February 13, 2017, Marks had accompanied his employer to Citizens Bank around 17.00 hrs to make a deposit. The businessman had just deposited the cash when a silver-grey car, with three occupants, stopped outside the bank.
An eyewitness said that the men shot in Marks’ direction and the employee, who had a handgun, returned fire. However, Marks was wounded during the exchange and had to take cover.