BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – ASGARILLI ROGERS, who will be 50 years old in April, will have to celebrate that milestone in Her Majesty’s Prison because he was sentenced to serve two years in the penal institution for receiving stolen goods.
Rogers appeared in the Basseterre High Court yesterday (Feb. 17) and was sentenced by His Lordship Justice Errol Thomas after pleading guilty to receiving a number of items unlawfully taken from his neighbour’s home.
The items were stolen from the Connell Street, McKnight home of Adora Warner on February 23, 2010.
The court was told that the police executed a search warrant on Rogers’ home on March 10, 2010 and found a number of the stolen items.
The items found are one Hewlett Packard (HP) CPU and keyboard, one Dura brand DVD player, one Magic Chef microwave, two HIS Tower bolts, three Samsung cellular phones, two Sony Ericsson cellular phones, one Nokia cellular phone, one Sony Home Audio with two speakers and one Skill power drill.
The court also learnt that Rogers was employed by Warner on numerous occasions to clean her yard.
Rogers was represented by Barrister-at-Law Chesley Hamilton who had made mitigations on behalf of him at his sentencing hearing.
Hamilton said that his client went to court and acted responsibly by pleading guilty to receiving and cooperated with the police officers when they went to his home to search for the items.
“He is gainfully employed and although he lost his hand he did not use it as an excuse…he still remained employed,” Hamilton said.
Hamilton pleaded with the court to consider Rogers’ age when handing down sentence and that although he had brushes with the law from 2003-2009, which resulted in him receiving fines the majority of times, he was not a repeat offender of the current offence.
His lordship told Rogers that the appropriate sentence should have been three to10 years but he had decided to give him two years for the crime.
