Princes Street man gets 1 year for theft

A garbage collector was on Monday slapped with three break-and-enter charges when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Aubrey Price, of Lot 75 Princes Street, Lodge, Georgetown, stood before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus, and pleaded not guilty to the charge which stated between June 11 and June 12, 2019 at Princes Street, Lodge, he broke into a storage bond of Sheron Nurse and stole four cases of Banks beer bottles.
He, however, pleaded guilty to the charge which stated that on February 15, 2019 at Princes Street, he broke into the home of Marsha Baird and stole a Samsung tablet valued $40,000; two flatscreen televisions valued $216,000; a cellular phone valued $30,000; one laptop valued $100,000 and a Rubis gas cylinder valued $6000.
It was further alleged that on March 15, 2019, at Princes Street, he stole one gas cylinder valued $6000, a charge to which he pleaded guilty with explanation.
The defendant told the court that he saw the house open and as such, he entered and took the gas cylinder. He further told the court that he recently served two sentences.
Prosecutor Shellon Daniels objected to bail given the three charges, and asked that the summary application be disclosed.
The facts of the matter presented to the court stated that on February 15, Baird secured her home leaving the mentioned articles in the kitchen, but upon returning home at 16:00h, she discovered her door was wrenched open.
As she entered her home, she saw that the house was ransacked and the gas cylinder was missing.
A report was made at the East La Penitence Police Station and an investigation was launched. The suspect was subsequently arrested.
Magistrate Isaacs-Marcus sentenced the man to one year in prison for the charges to which the defendant pleaded guilty. He was nevertheless remanded to prison for the other charges and his next court appearance was slated for June 24, 2019.