A security guard has found himself in trouble after he was reportedly caught by another guard removing a new tyre from a police car and replacing it with an old one.

The 39-year-old accused, Kevin Henry of a St Thomas address, is facing a charge of simple larceny.

The court heard that Henry, unbeknown to him, was seen by another guard at the Urban Development Corporation’s head office in Kingston stealing the item from the vehicle.

“You was seen going to the police car with a jack, and yuh tek off the wheel and yuh roll it to your car; and then yuh tek out a old car tyre and put it on the police car,” the prosecutor told the court. “He did not know that someone was up on the building looking down on him.”

The alleged theft took place on July 9, sometime after 1:00 am, the court heard.

The witness then reported the matter at a police station opposite the UDC and the police arrived and saw Henry with two tyres in his car which he said he had purchased for $4,000, but could produce no receipt.

When cautioned by the police he reportedly said: “Offisa, mi nuh know wa yuh a talk bout.”

On Wednesday when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court he pleaded not guilty.

Parish Judge Chester Crooks, however, questioned why the witness had not recorded the alleged theft if he had all that time to watch the accused.

The judge also enquired if the alleged theft had not been captured by any private camera but the prosecutor indicated that the police did not have any CCTV footage of the alleged incident.

Henry’s bail was hence extended and another mention date was set for November 8, as the file presented in court was incomplete.

Man reportedly attacks estranged wife over $5,000 Round Robin money

A man was taken before the court for reportedly slapping his estranged wife in her face and hitting her in the back over $5,000 owed to him from a ’round robin’, or ‘drink up’.

The accused, Ricardo McDonald, was recently arrested and charged with assault occasioning bodily harm.

However, on Friday when the accused appeared in court before Parish Judge Chester Crooks, he pleaded not guilty to the charge while explaining that he and his wife have been separated for 13 years.

McDonald told the court that he was involved in a round robin, along with his estranged wife, which requires each participant to pay $5,000.

However, he said: “When her own keep, I went and I pay and when my own keep, she didn’t even come and I went to her and asked her for the money and she told me she not going to give me.”

McDonald said he told her that his babymother had also helped him, to pay the money but she told him that she didn’t care.

“I just go there asking for my money, and I told her it was not fair because I had paid my money.

“I told her I not leaving until I get it and she take up a pot and slapped me with it,” he said.

“After she draw the pot, I slap her, I have two witnesses,” McDonald insisted.

The complainant, however, told the court that it was McDonald who first hit her after she told him that she had used the money to help pay their divorce lawyer.

“We looking about a divorce. Two a we say we a go get the money — $100,000 — to pay the lawyer.

So I pay $30,000 and we in the round robin. And me did have $15,000 so me put on the money to make $20, 000 and carry it go give the lawyer,” she said.

The complainant further told the court that when McDonald came to her asking for the money she asked him if he had not listened to the voice note she had sent saying that she was going to put the money towards the divorce.

However, she said McDonald then hit her in her face, causing trauma to her eyes, swelling and pain.

But McDonald insisted that it was she who had first attacked him. He further told the court that he had to arm himself with a knife to scare her from hitting him a second time with the pot.

The judge, however, asked the complainant if it was the first time that he had hit her and she said ‘no’, and that she had left the marriage because of abuse.

But McDonald said she was not speaking the truth.

Judge Crooks subsequently set the matter for trial on August 16 and extended McDonald’s bail.

Man stabbed in back after defending his wife

A loader man who is accused of stabbing a man after the victim told him to leave his wife alone, claimed in court that he was defending himself.

Owen Burke is charged with unlawful wounding.

According to the police, on June 22 both men were in downtown Kingston in the market district on Pechon Street when Burke reportedly started making some unflattering comments about the complainant’s wife. The complainant reportedly told Burke to leave his wife alone and to go and watch the World Cup.

Burke reportedly got upset, left and returned with some men, but the men left after hearing what had occurred.

Further allegations are that on the following day the complainant was again in downtown Kingston attending to his goods when Burke reportedly sneaked up behind him and stabbed him in his back.

The complainant was rushed to the Kingston Public Hospital where he was admitted for four days.

On Friday when the matter was mentioned Burke told the court that he was defending himself and that the complainant was the aggressor.