Three years after he was sentenced to six months in prison for wounding a Police officer, 24-year-old national footballer Jobe Caesar is in trouble with the law again.
The Bent Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown man appeared before Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus on Monday on charges of illegal gun and ammunition possession.
Remanded: Jobe Caesar
It is alleged that on November 13, at the National Gymnasium at Mandela Avenue, Georgetown, Caesar had in his possession one .32 Taurus pistol along with six matching rounds without being the holder of a firearm licence. He pleaded not guilty to both charges.
Caesar was remanded until December 12. He was represented by attorney Everton Singh-Lammy.
A party of Policemen acting on a “tip-off” went to the National Gymnasium where Caesar was playing a football match, searched him, and allegedly found the unlicenced gun on him.
Caesar is a member of the Bent Street Futsal team and was part of the quarterfinal matches of the MVP Sports Futsal Tournament.
Singh-Lammy made an application for his client to be admitted to reasonable bail, citing multiple occupancies, since according to him, the firearm was found in a public place and not on Caesar’s person. The application, which was strongly opposed by the prosecutor, was denied.
In 2018, the footballer was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by Senior Magistrate Dylon Bess after he was found guilty of wounding a Police officer.
According to reports, at the time, he had been in a relationship with the Police officer’s girlfriend. On the day in question, the Policeman went to the woman’s Pineapple Street, East Ruimveldt, Georgetown home, and found her in the footballer’s lap.
It is alleged that the Policeman and his girlfriend had an argument and the footballer in retaliation attacked the officer and dealt him a punch to his face.
He then allegedly snatched the officer’s service revolver and pointed it at him.
The Policeman then left and reported the matter to the East Ruimveldt Police Outpost, and the footballer was subsequently arrested, charged, and later convicted of the offence.
He was also charged with robbing the Policeman’s girlfriend of a $30,000 cell phone, at Albert and Charlotte Streets, Georgetown, while being armed with a gun and damaging her $3.5 million motor car.
When he appeared in court, he had denied both charges and was on trial. However, when the matters were called, the virtual complainant told the court that she did not wish to proceed with the matters. Hence, the Magistrate dismissed the charges against him.
Also, in February of this year, the footballer was arrested and questioned in connection with the murder of Carlos DeShawn Waithe, 24, a clothes vendor of Lot 2 Norton Street, Werk-en-Rust.
On the night of Waithe’s death, he was consuming alcohol with friends in Charlestown after which he indicated to them that he was leaving to go to a bar at Breda Street, Georgetown.
It was reported that Waithe, while in the company of another friend, arrived at the bar, during which his friend became involved in an argument with another patron at the bar.
The friend, Police said, was then seen running east on Leopold Street towards Smyth Street while being chased by a group of men. Loud explosions were heard during the chase which caused Waithe to also give chase behind the men, yelling “y’all can’t shoot da man”. The men then turned their attention to Waithe and an argument ensued, during which he was fatally shot. (G1)
