A Bellevue Chopin man has pleaded guilty while his girlfriend says she is innocent of the theft of over $200 worth of diesel from a parked truck in Loubiere last week.
Epson Stuart, a repeat offender and well known to police for thefts, was sentenced to five months in prison when he appeared before Magistrate Ossie Lewis on Friday.
His girlfriend Carlena Thomas of Kingshill, will stand trial on June 9, 2011 for the same offense. She was bailed in the sum of $3,000 with one surety.
The facts regarding Stuart’s case, according to the police prosecutor, is that the incident occurred at about 9:30 p.m. on January 27, 2011 while the truck – belonging to Author Shillingford – was parked in an open area.
Another trucker, Philsbert Pitman, whose truck was also parked in the vicinity, was an eye witness to the incident. He had alerted both the police and owner of the truck.
The prosecutor said that Pitman had initially received certain information, went to the area where the trucks were parked and noticed a bus parked close to the complainant’s truck.
He saw the defendant with a hose in his hand in which one side was directed to the complainant’s tank and the other into a black pail.
According to the prosecutor, the witness saw the defendant siphon the diesel from the truck. His girlfriend who was in the bus was also spotted by the witness.
After Pitman confronted and alerted Stuart that the police had been contacted, the defendant immediately got into his bus and sped into Point Michel. Pitman chased him until he crashed a parked bus in Loubiere. He then exited the bus and began running leaving his girlfriend behind.
Thomas allegedly assisted the police in finding the defendant. When confronted Stuart said, “It is my first time I taking diesel.”
The state presented a pipe wrench, black pot and pail they found in the area of the incident as evidence. Attorney Dawn Yearwood-Stewart, who mitigated on Stuart’s behalf, pleaded for a last chance for her client, stating that her client had a problem and prison was not the way to solve it.
She said that when questioned, Stuart had said that he “did not understand why he was doing those things” and “something comes over him”.
“This accused man has a problem, a peculiar one,” Yearwood-Stewart told the court. She suggested community service and counseling for her client.
Her attempts to sway the court from imposing a custodial sentence fell on deaf ears as Magistrate Lewis read out Stuart’s long list of theft offenses, noting that he had been punished by six different magistrates for his crimes and was not learning his lesson.
Lewis pointed out a two-year sentence handed down by Magistrate Tiyani Behanzin in 2009 and another one-year sentence by another magistrate.
“He has went through the gamuts of magistrates,”Lewis commented.
“If you say this man has a problem and he does things and doesn’t know what he is doing, he is dangerous to society. He needs help. He will have to get it from where he is,” Lewis said before handing down his sentence.
Stuart was also sentenced to pay $228 for the diesel stolen from the complainant by June 2011 or he will face three more weeks in prison.
He has a son to take care of and that is the best way of doing it… I hope his son don’t take his bad habit…
Only God can make that difference in Epson…. Just the blood of Jesus. nothing else..the song says..”what can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.” so this is what i recommend to Epson.
life in jail is too sweet boy. the man getting a good meal everyday and he have a roof over his head. he doe have no problems and he doe need no help. repeat offender syndrome, thats what he suffering from. people that like jail thats their little issue. i bet u hes not going to pay the $228. my boy cheaking “i will take jail for 228 please”
3 more weeks we …u mad!
THIS man just likes Stockfarm…Epson boy you need to change….And the girlfriend is basically the same…
Wonder if the authorities can keep up with the frequency with which this young man goes to Stokkie!!!!
“He has went through the gamuts of magristrates” being able to properly speak the language is no longer a prerequisite of being a magistrate. How can we uplift ourselves if the people placed in those positions can’t even speak the language.
So If he said it in KoKOY you would have understood? papa metre… o sorry u not understanding creole … papa metre is the same way as saying oh father… oh sorry again.. u not understanding PROPER english!! go ahead and ask someone to translate!
that is y u will remain a “porsh-chillot’………open yr brain and see the mistake in the sentence…..”he has “went” through the gamuts of magistrates”..this should have read…”he has GONE through” or “he went through”………………so take your stupidity back and go learn so me grammar.
so the witness had to chase the voleh until he crash into another vehicle den ay ay,,,, dem man like to play hero,,,,cmon police know the crook,,,, why cuz a high speed chase n put lives in danger nuh,,,, now all the woman has to say is,,,”mr told me his boy offer him fuel so i thought it was that n nothing more”
Boy mister not learning his lesson, but he went jail for pigsnout and he is a seventh days!
i hope mr. epson learn his lesson…..u have been in problem wiuth the law…is not No PROBLEM U HAVE…. u just toooooooooo wicked & u should pay for ur actions….. & i hope dat ur parents talk to u….cause they should be the Ones Counselling u
epson again
Epson encore!!!!!
These women need to be punished to the fullest. You know your man is a thief. You go as far as accompanying him on his escapades. I hope they put you in jail as an accomplice. Women need to behave as ladies. If a desparado say the right things and you happen to fall in love with him I can understand but when you find out that he is a criminal, leave!! You in the bus. Even if you did not know what he was going to do, when you reach there and you see him take out his bucket, well leave!! You sit down in the front of the bus like a queen waiting for the man to voleur somebody hard earned diesel. You are just as guilty.
The system needs to give you some community service on Roseau streets. Have some pride and dignity. Do not wait for when they catch you to say I not guilty.
but she is one too
Shut ur a**,coming and talk about his gf is one too, she already voleh your thing, allu to like to give ppl bad name, and it happens to anyone, nobody knows what is going through somebody’s mind if they never say it, if the woman had know is that the man was going to do she would have discouraged him, many time i go out with my bf and he does leave me and go, i no if i not drugs he going and deliver! but i checking to myself i no my man not in that so i pull up, but if police come on me while i there i not guilty, what the hell, stupes
Is diesel that expensive and he drives a bus which means he makes a living and earns money
5 MONTHS JAIL FOR $200.00 worth of deisel? Pour on coco doh stop yet man?
Yes picture please!!!!!
Yea put their picture up dey too voler..put d girlfriend in da same prison cell…PICTURES PLEASE..BETTER YET WITH D HOSE IN HIS MOUTH
HAHAHA.. with black mayonnaise coming out from it! … .LOL LMFAO!…… zor pas feb! hehe
PIctures please!!! please!!! WHo are they?