A Warwick teen was released on bail this morning after he admitted taking a motorcycle.

Jervon Taylor, 19, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to a charge of taking a black Honda Scoopy without the owner’s consent sometime between October 4 and November 24 last year.

The court heard that the vehicle’s owner, Anthony Butterfield, parked it outside of his house on the evening on October 2 before leaving the country. While he was away, his son noticed that the vehicle was missing and called police to report it stolen.

After returning to the Island, Mr Butterfield was riding east along Middle Road in Warwick when he noticed two men riding a motorcycle that appeared to be his in the opposite direction. He turned around and soon noticed the vehicle parked outside of Hayward’s Supermarket.

After confirming that the motorcycle was his, he contacted police and waited to confront the riders. When they came out of the store, he asked them where they got the bike and the rider responded that he had borrowed it from a friend.

The rider was arrested, and when questioned told police that he was borrowing the bike from Taylor.

The accused subsequently surrendered himself to police and told officers that he had found the motorcycle parked along the trees on the railway trail in Warwick with the keys still in it. “I can tell you for a fact that this will never happen again,” he said.

Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo ordered that a social inquiry report be carried out on Taylor, adjourning the matter until March for sentencing. Until then, he released Taylor on $2,000 bail with a like surety.