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Inmates deny prison escape

Damion Wayne Smith, 28, and Kenneth Trevor Boyles, 22, both pleaded not guilty to escaping custody while incarcerated when they appeared in Magistrates' Court.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner set a June 21 trial date. Bail was set for Smith and Boyles at $1,000 with one like surety.

MAN FOUND SLUMPED OVER THE WHEEL CTS Man found slumped over the wheel A 56-year-old Hamilton Parish man suffered the consequences of impaired driving when he appeared at Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner fined Trevor Wayne Fyfe, of Link Lane, $500 and disqualified him from driving all vehicles for 12 months.

Fyfe was seen in a silver jeep, during the early hours of May 16, which was parked at a 90 degree angle near the Hamilton Parish rectory on Trinity Road by uniformed Police officers.

They approached the jeep and saw its exterior lights were on full beam and its interior lights were also on. Fyfe was slumped over the steering wheel.

When officers questioned him he appeared dazed and confused but said: "I'm drunk. Yeah, I've been drinking.'' The court also heard that Fyfe refused to take a breathalyser test and, in his defence he said he was tired.

"It was late Your Worship and I was extremely fatigued, but I was very cooperative at that time,'' he said.

JAIL FOR MAN WHO STOLE REGIMENT TV CTS MIL Jail for man who stole Regiment TV A Southampton man was jailed for three months on Tuesday after he admitted stealing a 25-inch television from the Bermuda Regiment cook's quarters.

Maxwell Mustapha Smith, 28, of Riviera Estates Road, also had $500 worth of unpaid fines from drug offences.

When Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner gave him the option of paying the fines or serving 40 days Smith replied: "I'll do the time for the fines.'' Meanwhile Magistrates' Court heard that Captain Glen Brangman left the cook's quarters secure when he left the Regiment at 5 p.m. on May 4.

When he returned the next day, Capt. Brangman discovered someone had broken in to the quarters through a window and stolen a television.

Police arrested Smith after receiving information and he admitted selling the TV.

The television valued at $299, was recovered in a damaged state.

When Mr. Warner asked Smith why he stole the TV, he replied: "I don't know. I just did.'' CASH STOLEN FROM DANCE SCHOOL CRM Cash stolen from dance school Police officers are investigating three incidents which occurred on Monday.

Police responded to the report of a break-in at a Smith's Parish home just after 11 a.m.

As officers arrived at the Watch Hill Road home, they found the culprit had already left the scene but were able to get a description of the culprit from a witness.

Police later apprehended a 36-year old Pembroke man after a foot chase at about 11.40 a.m. on Washington Street in Hamilton.

Elsewhere cash was allegedly taken from the Jackson School of Dance that afternoon.

The victim said she briefly left her purse unattended in a classroom around 4.30 p.m. and returned about half-an-hour later to find money was missing from it.

And early that evening Police were called to the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries' Dog Kennels on Middle Road in Southampton after it was broken into and a pit bull terrier was stolen.

It was the second reported offence in the space of a week. Police reported on May 16 that there had been an attempted break-in at the same facility.