Man fined $100,000 for stealing chairs from police checkpoint in St Catherine
Published:Wednesday | March 13, 2024 | 6:19 PM
A man was today fined $100,000 or three months' imprisonment in the St Catherine Parish Court for stealing chairs from a police checkpoint.
Thirty-one-year-old security guard Nashaun Spence was charged with simple larceny, but he pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of larceny by finding.
He was sentenced by Senior Parish Court Judge Yvette Wenthworth-Miller.
Facts are that on March 23,2023, a police team was on patrol along the Spanish Town Bypass when upon reaching an unoccupied checkpoint near the Jose Marti roundabout Spence was seen removing chairs and placing them into a vehicle.
Spence was accosted.
He explained that he saw the chairs and not knowing if they were owned, he decided to take them.
He was arrested and subsequently charged.
- Rasbert Turner
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