A man who carried out a number of robberies on Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) buses has been sentenced to three years in prison in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court.

Delgado Hislop, who was before the court on two counts of simple larceny, two counts of assault at common-law and two counts of assault with intent to rob, was sentenced by presiding magistrate Paula Blake Powell to one-year imprisonment on each count for each charge. However, the one-year sentences will run concurrently on each charge, leaving Hislop to serve only three years in prison.

Hislop was arrested last September by the Flying Squad for a robbery on a bus plying the Kingston to Spanish Town route. He was charged. While remanded into custody, he was implicated in bus robberies that took place in the Rockfort, Havendale and Six Miles communities. Following several identification parades, he was arrested and charged with some of these robberies.

It was also alleged that Hislop’s weapon of choice while performing the robberies was a machete.

An Observer source also indicated that between March to August last year, which is believed to be the period in which Hislop was most active, there were approximately 14 robberies per month. Since Hislop’s arrest in September, there had been an average of four robberies per month through to the end of the year.