Two men were yesterday sentenced to nine months imprisonment each for stealing cellular phone, when they appeared before Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on two separate charges.
In one case, Cheddi Bacchus was alleged to have stolen a BlackBerry Torch phone valued $140,000 property of Junior Persaud on November 16, 2012 at Bourda Market.
Police Prosecutor Jumo Nichols proved to the court, by using Persaud and his employee’s statements, that Bacchus went to Persaud’s business to sell an item but instead he stole the phone.
Bacchus was tried and Magistrate Daly yesterday found him guilty and sentenced him.
In the other case, Colin Allen, who was accused of robbing Tenesia Jones of one cellular phone valued $25,000 on February 1, at Kitty Seawall, changed his plea to guilty.
Allen had pleaded not guilty to the charge when it was first read to him, according to Police Prosecutor Jumo Nichols.
Yesterday, he changed his plea to guilty and Magistrate Leron Daly sentenced him.
