Three Sophia men were yesterday charged with breaking and entering their neighbour’s home and stealing a quantity of items valued over $400,000.
The trio entered a not-guilty plea to the joint charge of break and enter and larceny when acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson read it at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
The charge alleges that on March 11, at Sophia, Dwayne Wilson, Quacy Inverary and Vibert Alder, all of Sophia, broke and entered the home of Shamine Cumberbatch and stole a stereo set, a television, an electric iron, a DVD player, a curling iron, several textbooks and a quantity of jewellery, valued $401,000 in total. They had been charged together with Courtney Cummings, who was remanded to prison last week, after entering a not guilty plea to the same charge.
The men’s lawyer, Sasha Roberts, applied for reasonable bail on the grounds that they posed no risk of flight. Roberts said that her clients were arrested several weeks after the incident and nothing was found on their person. She noted that if released her clients would attend court when required.
Prosecutor Phillip Sherif made no objections to the bail applications.
The men are to return to court on May 7. (AB)
