– for stealing car battery

A FORTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD man appeared on Thursday before a city magistrate on a simple larceny charge.

It was alleged that on May 7, 2018 at Georgetown, Jermaine Josiah stole a car battery worth $22,000, property of Trevon Samuels.
The labourer pleaded guilty to the charge but told the court that he saw the battery on the road by a bus park, and sold it for $500.

According to facts presented in court by the prosecutor, the virtual complaint and the defendant are known to each other, and on May 7, 2018 around 10:30hrs, the VC went to his stall and observed that the battery he uses to light the stall was missing.
On checking around, he got wind as to who the culprit was, and made a report at the station. When the defendant was arrested, he reportedly admitted committing the offence.

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan placed the defendant on two weeks community service.