Linstead man who led police on chase pleads guilty to stealing goats

A Linstead, St Catherine man today pleaded guilty in the parish court to larceny over the theft of four goats.

Thirty-two-year-old Lincoln Gordon was further remanded for sentencing on February 7 next year.

He was ordered by Parish Court Judge Janelle Nelson-Gayle to submit his fingerprints.

The facts are that on November 26, Gordon and another man, who remains at large, stole four goats along the Barry main road in St Catherine.

The police were alerted, and the Toyota Probox car they were travelling in was intercepted.

However, the vehicle eluded the police and subsequently crashed.

Gordon and his accomplice escaped.

The two men later stopped a taxi and boarded it, with Gordon in the trunk and his accomplice sitting in the back seat.

The police subsequently caught up with the taxi and intercepted it.

The driver disembarked from the taxi and Gordon was accosted.

His accomplice reportedly jumped into the driver's seat of the taxi and drove off.

Gordon was later charged with larceny and robbery with aggravation, with the latter charge being withdrawn by the prosecution.

- Rasbert Turner

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