Shot Greenlands burglar also charged
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – THE female juvenile who was caught at The Strip in Frigate Bay after escaping from the police on the pretext of being an asthma patient was charged with escaping lawful custody and larceny of a cellular phone.
Information reaching SKNVibes states that she was charged today (Jan. 24), placed on bail and will soon be appearing before a city magistrate.
This media learned that on Tuesday (Jan. 18), a young female from Parsons Village had placed her cellular phone on the edge of the court while practicing with the National Under-13 Netball team at Netball City in Warner Park.
The juvenile allegedly took the phone and the matter was reported to the police. She was arrested two days after the incident and was in custody at the Basseterre Police Station. However, sometime in the evening she informed the officers that she was asthmatic and needed her medication which was at her Lozack Road home.
Accompanied by an officer, the juvenile was taken to her home but she jumped through a window and escaped.
SKNVibes was informed that at approximately 2:00 a.m. on Saturday (Jan. 22) police officers saw the 15-year-old partying at The Strip and they arrested her and had her in custody at the Basseterre Police Station until she was bailed today.
Meanwhile, Clive Grant of La Guerite, the man who was shot by the police after being found on the premises of a Greenlands resident, was today (Jan. 24) charged for being in possession of housebreaking implements.
The 36-year-old man is still warded at the JNF Hospital under police guard but no information was gleaned concerning his alleged breaking into the home of former Winn FM’s employee Trevor ‘Jamster’ Woodley.
This media house was informed that the 36-year-old had allegedly broke into Woodley’s New Pond Site home at about 10:30 p.m. on Friday (Jan. 21) and stole two cellular phones and a handbag belonging to Woodley’s spouse.
However, while in the process of searching for more items, Woodley confronted him and he dropped the handbag and escaped with the cellular phones through the backdoor.
Woodley then informed the police of the incident and they immediately responded; however, the burglar had already disappeared from the area.
SKNVibes was told that the same suspect then made his way to another house in Taylor’s Range but he did not get to steal anything because the occupants were not asleep and were aware of his presence and intention.
Seemingly dissatisfied with the night’s illegal earnings, the same burglar headed for another house in Greenlands, but an alert neighbour notified the police of his presence in the yard.
Once again the police immediately responded and caught him armed with a knife. But during their attempt to arrest him, he resisted and was shot in the process.
A search of his person and the area where he was shot revealed that in addition to the knife, Grant had a bag in his possession that contained a number of house-breaking implements including a crowbar, wire cutter and screwdriver. He also had a cellular phone in his possession that was identified as being one of the two stolen from Woodley’s home.
A reliable source informed this media house that the description of the burglar which Woodley gave to the police matched that given by the Taylor’s Range resident. However, when Grant was caught in Greenlands, the shirt he was wearing was not the same one described by the two individuals. But during the body search, police noticed that he was wearing two shirts under the outer garment and one of them seemed to have been the same as that described by the first victim and the intended one.
Investigations into this incident are ongoing.
