A teacher at the Ensom City Primary School in St. Catherine, is without a motor vehicle today, as she was robbed of it at gunpoint on the school compound yesterday.
According to reports, at approximately 7:10 a.m. yesterday morning, while school devotion was under way, the female teacher drove up in her Suzuki Grand Vitara SUV and parked. She was reportedly pounced on by a gunman who demanded the keys to the vehicle. The criminal then sped away, after an accomplice assisted with reopening the school gate.
Reports indicate that the school only has a night watchman, and that its over 1,400 students are in need of daytime security as well, as it is located in a criminal hot spot in Spanish Town.
Jamaica’s love affair with murder, death and mayhem continued yesterday, as four persons (three men and a woman) were savagely murdered in the ‘Backlands’ community of Spanish Town early yesterday morning. The four have been identified as 34-year-old David ‘Te Te’ Williams, 29 year old Clayton Simpson, 45-year-old Garnett Greg and Sandra Wint, a 42-year-old mother of eight.
According to police reports, at approximately 5:30 a.m. yesterday, a group of men invaded the community, and dragged Williams and Wint from their house. The men then reportedly ambushed Simpson and Greg, who were on their way to work. All four were taken into the bushes where they were gagged and their throats slashed. They were also stabbed.
Unconfirmed reports indicate that the victims, who all lived close to the section of the community near several trees and a river, were attacked by men from a neighbouring community, and that the attacks may have been linked to an ongoing feud in the March Pen Road area.
Residents have described the victims of yesterday’s attack as hard-working and peaceful.
A 17 year old boy who is accused of murdering another 17 year old boy during an argument over a 13 year old girl, was denied bail when he appeared in the Spanish Town Criminal Court earlier this week. The youth was remanded in a juvenile home, and his case transferred to the St. Catherine’s Children’s Court, where the matter will be mentioned on March 25.
The court heard that on February 13, 2010 at approximately 2:15 a.m., the boys were on the notoriously volatile Chambers Lane in Spanish Town arguing about a girl. Allegations are that the accused pulled a gun and shot Monaire Maulseed in the eye; he died on the spot. Another boy, a 16 year old, was also reportedly shot and injured during the incident.
Two warehouse attendants, 29 year old Oral Billett and 29 year old Ricardo Allen, who are accused of stealing 44 cases of Monster energy drink (valued at over J$132,000), pleaded not guilty when they appeared in the Spanish Town Criminal Court recently. Their $50,000 bail was extended to May 10, when the matter will again be mentioned.
Allegations are that on January 25, 2010, while working at the Wisynco warehouse in Lakes Pen, Spanish Town, the men were given an order invoice to take out one case of Monster energy drink. However, it was later discovered that 44 cases were take out and loaded onto a delivery truck.
The police were called in, and the men were arrested and charged with simple larceny of the energy drink. They were later given $50,000 station bail.
A pastor from a church in Spanish Town, recently had to pay out more than J$100,000 to gang members in the area, after a gun was found hidden at his church yard, and he handed it over to the police.
According to reports, the gun was hidden there by the thugs, but was found when the church yard was being cleaned up. The pastor called the Spanish Town police and the gun was handed over to them, but the gun’s owners were reportedly unamused about the situation and demanded the money as recourse for the loss of the gun. The money was reportedly paid to the gang members.
Rose-Ann Campbell, a 25 year old primary school of Spanish Town in St. Catherine, appeared in the Spanish Town Criminal Court yesterday, where she pleaded guilty to the charge of possession of three ounces of ganja.
It is alleged that on August 27, Campbell went to the Spanish Town police lock-up with a parcel which she said contained a loaf of bread for her cousin who is a prisoner in the jail there. The parcel was searched, and three ounces of ganja were found, wrapped with plastic paper and embedded in the bread. She was arrested and charged.
She pleaded guilty with explanation, stating that her aunt asked her to take it to her son (Campbell’s cousin) at the lock-up, and that she did not know it contained ganja. The Resident Magistrate extended Campbell’s $40,000 bail bond, and adjourned the matter until to October 20 when Caombell will be sentenced. The Resident Magistrate also requested a social enquiry from the probation officer in order to help determine the degree of sentence to be handed down.
A woman who stripped down to her panties during a fight in the guard room of the Guanaboa Vale police station, St. Catherine, was arrested and charged with indecent exposure and several other charges (assaulting the police, using indecent language and resisting arrest).
The 21 year old woman, who is of a March Pen Road address in Spanish Town, pleaded guilty when she appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday. The Judge ordered that she pay a fine of J$2,000 each for assaulting the police and resisting arrest, and $800 for indecent language.
On the count of indecent exposure, her $30,000 station bail was extended, and it was adjourned for trial on September 29.
The police testified that on August 8 of this year at about 10 p.m., the woman and a friend had an argument and they came to the police station to make a report. While in the police station, she reportedly became boisterous and began to use indecent language. She was ordered to leave, and went to the station yard where she allegedly started making threats. When the police approached her, she reportedly started to fight them – eventually they managed to overpower her and she was arrested and charged.
The Spanish Town police in St. Catherine are pulling out all stops to capture the elusive Donald Brown, aka ‘Negus’, a man who is said to be at the top of their most wanted list. The push to find him has heightened in recent times, following a string of killings in the area recently.
Brown is said to be a ruthless gang member (formerly of the Klansman Gang, but now a member of the One Order Gang) who has been implicated in a number of shootings in the Waterloo, Waterloo Villa, Tredegar Park, Gravel Heights and Lauriston areas near Spanish Town in St. Catherine.
He is 23 years old, approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall, of slim build, dark complexion and weighing approximately 160 pounds. Anyone knowing his whereabouts is asked to contact the Spanish Town police or call 119.
