Couriers pleaded guilty yesterday to the crime and two charges of breaking and entering.

Police prosecutor Sgt. Phil Taylor told Magistrates' Court Damon R. Burgess walked into IBC offices in the Dallas Building on Park Street at 10 a.m. on September 23 and asked for a job application.

Burgess proceeded to fill out the application then handed it to the receptionist and left.

He returned a short time later reached over the counter and grabbed a metal cash box worth $60 and containing $190.25. He then calmly walked out with it.

Four days later Burgess was picked up just after 5 p.m. and taken to Prospect Police Station where he was questioned about the matter and denied involvement.

He was picked up again at 7.15 p.m. on September 29 and identified in a Police line-up as the culprit. At that time he admitted to the crime.

In addition to the IBC offence, Burgess admitted to two counts of breaking and entering.

Sgt. Taylor said Police were called to a residence on 15 Tribe Road Number Two in Warwick after noises were heard coming from a downstairs apartment and a bedroom window was found open.

When Police arrived they found Burgess hiding in the bedroom closet.

He was placed under arrest and taken to Hamilton Police Station where he admitted gaining access to the apartment, which belonged to his aunt, through the bedroom window.

At 11.45 p.m. on September 24 a cook at Landfall Restaurant, located at Clearview Guest House on North Shore Road, in Hamilton Parish, saw a man coming out of his living quarters as he was entering.

The cook confronted the man who kept walking and proceeded to hold a conversation with an older female employee, Sgt. Taylor said. The man then left the restaurant.

Burgess, was later identified, in the line-up at Hamilton Police Station as the man who the Landfall employee saw at the guest house. And he admitted to the crime.

Duty counsel Kim Wilson told Senior Magistrate Will Francis Burgess' case warranted a social inquiry report to which Mr. Francis agreed.

Burgess, who was sentenced in Supreme Court to two years in prison in 1994 for armed robbery and violence, was remanded in custody for sentencing on November 10.