Four months after being remanded on a charge of robbing a woman of over $3.3 million in gold and other valuables, Raphael Watts was yesterday released on $300,000 bail.
Watts, 34, was brought before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where he was granted bail.
In September, 2021, he was remanded by Magistrate Rhondel Weever after he denied the charge that on April 24, 2021, at Hadfield Street and Louisa Row, Georgetown, while being armed with a gun, he robbed Towanna Ammon of 10 pennyweights of raw gold, cash, and other items totaling $3.3 million.
The magistrate released him on $300,000 bail and the matter was adjourned until March 24.
During Watts’ arraignment last year, his attorney, Dexter Smartt, made a bail application however it was unsuccessful. Police Prosecutor Christopher Morris told the court Ammon and a friend were on their way to a Chinese restaurant located between Hadfield Street and Louisa Row, Georgetown, to purchase a meal when they were held at gunpoint by two men on a motorcycle. During the robbery, Ammon was relieved of the items mentioned in the charge. Following a report to the police, Watts was arrested.
