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Richie Renee, a 23-year-old from Elms Hall and 30-year-old Arlington Moise of Didier Lane, Goodwill, will spend time at the Dominica State Prison following their conviction for theft of over $3,000.00 worth of items at a house in Goodwill.<\/p>\n
Renee who was recently charged with burglary at the Magistrate court and denied bail, found himself facing another theft charge.<\/p>\n
According to the charge brought by the police, on October 17, 2021 at Canal Lane Goodwill, Renee and Moise entered a house belonging to Jocelyn Cuffy Peters and stole one 40 inch flat screen TV valued at $2,810.00, one extension cord, five bottles of champagne and several bottles of alcoholic drinks with a total value of $3,520.29.<\/p>\n
They were also charged with maliciously damaging a burglar bar valued at $150.00.<\/p>\n
Renee and Moise pleaded guilty to both charges at their court appearance.<\/p>\n
The facts presented to the court by police prosecutor, Inspector Davidson Cadette, revealed that at about 5:00 p.m. on October 17, Franklyn Cuffy who is the caretaker of his sister’s home in Canal Lane, Goodwill, secured the premises prior to leaving the house.<\/p>\n
On his return the following day, he observed that the burglar bar which secured a window\u00a0 on the second\u00a0 floor was damaged. Upon entry into the house, he also noticed that the entire dwelling place had been ransacked and that the aforementioned items were missing.<\/p>\n
Cuffy contacted the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Constable Daniel Ormond was assigned to the matter. The police officer immediately commenced investigation and visited the home with another officer who assisted him in examining the scene.<\/p>\n
On October 28, Moise was arrested on suspicion of burglary at the court while Renee was arrested the following day for the same offence.<\/p>\n
Two days later, constable Ormond met and identified himself to Renee at the cells in the Roseau Police Station, cautioned him and informed him of the report he was investigating at Goodwill.<\/p>\n
During the said conversation with the police officer, Renee admitted to damaging the burglar bar, entering the home and stealing the items along with Moise.<\/p>\n
Later that same day, the investigating officer also conducted an interview with Moise and he too confessed to stealing the items from the home.<\/p>\n
A charge of theft and malicious damage was subsequently preferred against both men.<\/p>\n
During the investigation, only the television was recovered.<\/p>\n
At the hearing, attorney-at-law Darius Jones who represented Renee, pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy.<\/p>\n
Jones told the magistrate that Renee is a father of a 4-year-old and he serves as her sole provider.<\/p>\n
He also stated that his client suffers from an underlying heart condition and a custodial sentence would not be in his favor.<\/p>\n
However, in handing down her sentence, the Chief Magistrate said she precisely followed the sentencing guideline and due to the offenders’ previous conviction, she was unable to impose a fine.<\/p>\n
The maximum penalty for a thief\u00a0 on summary conviction is seven years in prison and Magistrate Carette-George gave a starting point of 20 percent of the maximum sentence, 17 months in prison.<\/p>\n
Due to the aggravating factor of the offense, Carette-George added six months as she said there appeared to be a certain level of planning involved. As it relates to the aggravating factor of the offenders, another six months was added because both had previous convictions of a similar nature.<\/p>\n
The magistrate said there were no mitigating factors to consider. However, for their guilty plea, one third of the time was removed and the men were sentenced to 1 year and 8 months in jail.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for Moise, his time was doubled as he fell in default of a suspended jail sentence.<\/p>\n
On November 24, 2020, Moise appeared before Magistrate Michael Laudat on a charge of theft and the presiding magistrate had sentenced him to two years in jail but suspended his sentence for three years.<\/p>\n
“Like Mr Laudat explained to you, if you reoffend within those three years you must serve the two years jail time which he suspended. Because you now stand convicted of another offense you are in default of Mr Laudat’s suspended sentence and you must serve that time,\u201d Magistrate Carette-George told the 30-year-old.<\/p>\n
No separate penalty was imposed for the charge of malicious damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richie Renee, a 23-year-old from Elms Hall and 30-year-old Arlington Moise of Didier Lane, Goodwill, will spend time at the Dominica State Prison following their conviction for theft of over $3,000.00 worth of items at a house in Goodwill. Renee…","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":276928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,77,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-court-law","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n