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Go get a lawyer, Gun Court tells murder accused
Paul Henry
Monday, June 15, 2009
Magnus Mullings, who is charged with murdering his brother, 32-year-old pig farmer Greg Gordon, was last week given until later this month to secure legal representation when he appeared in the Gun Court section of the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.
Mullings, who is from Pularis Close in Gregory Park, St Catherine, was remanded in custody until June 29.
The 23-year-old Mullings was arrested on May 30 and charged with murder and illegal possession of a firearm, a day after the body of Gordon, more popularly known as Farmer Greg, was found with bullet wounds on his Portmore farm.
Gordon gained public attention last year when the government offered him several acres of land to relocate and expand after he complained that his pigs were being stolen from his farm on the Dyke Road in the municipality.
Gordon died leaving two children - a four-month-old girl and a four-year-old boy - and a widow.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has since pledged his support to the farm and Gordon's family.
'King Evil' held in US
JAMAICAN Omar Oneal Lewis, alias 'King Evil', who was being sought by the local police on a murder charge, was last week arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents in Miami, Florida, where he was also wanted.
Lewis is wanted by the Jamaican police for the June 2008 slaying of Richard Reid, who was stabbed at a nightclub in Montego Bay, St James.
The 33-year-old accused was arrested in the Lauderhill area of South Florida by ICE agents and Lauderhill police. He was wanted after absconding from the Orange County Sheriff's Office where he was charged with carrying a concealed weapon in February.
Michael Montaque, 25, was also arrested with Lewis.
Both men were deported to Jamaica, and will face federal criminal charges for illegally re-entering the United States.
Lewis was deported from the United States twice, in 2001 and 2006, when he settled in the hotbed community of Canterbury in St James.
If convicted, Lewis can be sentenced for up to two years in a US prison for the immigration breach, while Montaque, who was convicted of a felony and deported in January 2006, faces up to 10 years.
United States federal agents said they suspected Lewis had used at least six aliases in that country. He gave the police the name Kendell Joseph Smith when he was arrested for the concealed weapon.
In June 2005, Montaque was found to be in breach of US immigration laws while in the custody of the Broward County jail for a grand theft conviction. An immigration judge ordered him removed in September 2005.
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