Multiple offender Romel Bollers of Agricola, Greater Georgetown was on Wednesday remanded to prison on a simple larceny charge by Georgetown Magistrate Leron Daly, before whom he appeared to answer an allegation that he snatched Tanya Drakes’s gold chain and pendant on August 22, 2018 at Agricola, Greater Georgetown.
Bollers denied the allegation, but according to the prosecutor, the virtual complainant was standing on the Agricola Public Road when Bollers approached her, snatched the chain and made good his escape.
Bollers’ having already served three years’ jail for robbery-under-arms, the prosecution’s submissions were upheld and he was remanded to prison until October 10.
The run-ins that Bollers had with Police date back to September 11, 2012, when Agricola youth Shaquille Grant was shot and killed by Police ranks. At that time, Bollers had claimed that neither he nor any of his friends had been armed when Police opened fire on them.
During Policeman Terrence Wallace’s trial in 2015, Bollers, who was by then incarcerated, testified and rejected suggestions that he had pulled out a gun and shot at the Policemen.
The Police ranks had said that that act was what had propelled them to return fire, leaving Bollers’ friend Shaquille Grant dead. Policeman Wallace was later freed of the charge.
Bollers was behind bars during that time, having been sentenced by Magistrate Daly, who was then serving at the Providence Court, to three years’ jail for armed robbery.
He had been placed on $100,000 bail by ex-Magistrate Leslie Sobers prior to being convicted. However, based on the prosecution’s evidence, the court accepted that on December 3, 2012, Bollers robbed Amrita Bacchus of two cellular phones valued $185,000 while being armed with an ice pick.
After paying his debt to society, Bollers had another encounter with the law in January 2017, when he was alleged to have robbed two Policemen. However, when he appeared before city Magistrate Annette Singh, he outright denied the robbery charges.
Guyana Times reported that the first charge alleged that the defendant, on December 9, 2016, at East La Penitence Market, robbed Ian George of one car key and alarm valued $25,000.
The second charge alleged that Bollers robbed Elvis Parkinson of one cellphone valued $165,000, one wallet valued $5000, and $20,000 in cash at the same location. On that occasion, however, he was allegedly armed with a gun.
He had also been charged for robbing Gray Jordon of a cellphone valued $110,000, one wallet valued $5000, and $11,000 in cash while allegedly armed with a gun.
Bollers has been remanded to prison, and will be arraigned in court again on January 10, 2019.
