Seamen attacked with PVC pipe in failed robbery

Two Royal Navy sailors were lured to Court Street and attacked after they refused to give their guide cash.

The 19-year-old and 23-year-old crewmen from the HMS were on Front Street at 2 a.m. yesterday morning looking for food when a local man promised to take them to Island Chicken.

But the restaurant was closed and the man then asked for money to get food but the men refused. The suspect than walked behind some nearby buildings and returned with a piece of PVC pipe and demanded cash.

A struggle ensued and left the 19-year-old with a cut above his left eye which needed treatment.

The attacker, a 29-year-old from Pembroke, ran off but was later arrested. Witnesses should contact Hamilton CID on 295 0011.

A burglar broke into a Hayward?s Drive, St. George?s home on Tuesday morning and stole $85 cash.

Man to pay restitution for dog attack

Another dog owner has been dragged before the Magistrates? Court because the pet attacked a postal worker.

Edwin Bashir of Cook Hill Lane, Sandy?s admitted that his dog did bite postal worker Larry Hunt on September 13 while Mr. Hunt was delivering mail.

Bahsir told the court that his dog had been chained up, but managed to break free.

Mr. Hunt sustained serious injuries that required surgery and three days in the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

The attack sparked a protest in Hamilton by postal workers, who said something needed to be done about insecure dogs.

Yesterday, Bashir told Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner his house had been broken into shortly before the incident and the dog is normally kept inside. He said he kept the dog on a chain outside for protection.

Bashir apologised and said he now had the dog in a kennel and had visited the postal worker in the hospital. He also said he told the dog warden he was willing to pay for the expenses incurred as a result of the attack.

Mr. Warner told Bashir that the offence could result in a $10,000 fine, adding: ?This is a major problem in Bermuda and the Government increased the penalties.?

Bashir will return to court on January 5 with all of the financial information about restitution he has paid and then Mr. Warner will make his decision.

Pennsylvania men charged with drugs

Two Pennsylvanian men appeared in Magistrates? Court to answer to charges of drug importation.

Both men plead not guilty to importing cocaine on November 11. Jose Manuel Diaz, who is 33 years old, was charged first and also denied possessing cocaine in St. George?s parish and Emmanuel Velazquez denied a similar charge.

Both men are being represented by Larry Scott and were remanded into custody while they await their next court date.

Police dog found two ?joints?

Good work by a Police dog cost a 34-year-old Pembroke man $600 when it found two drug-filled cigarettes under the seat of his car.

Edry Moore of Mill Reach Lane pleaded guilty in Magistrates? Court yesterday to possessing cannabis on July 2, in Southampton. Crown counsel Paula Tyndale said Officers of the Police Support Unit approached Moore as his car was parked near Oleander Cycles on Middle Road, Southampton.

She said 3.02 grams of cannabis were found in a two handmade cigarettes in a plastic bag under the car?s front seat.

Man denies hurting child, woman

A 40-year-old Warwick man was released from Magistrates? Court on Tuesday on $5,000 bail after he denied assaulting a three-year-old boy and a woman.

Colin Leon Smith Landy of Cedar Hill pleaded not guilty of assaulting Wolette Symonds causing her bodily harm on November 19 in Warwick.

Landy also denied assaulting a boy at the same place and time.

In addition, Landy denied uttering threatening words to Ms Symonds on November 20, namely, ?By the end of the week you?re going to be dead.?

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner released Landy on $5,000 bail to appear for trial on February 16.

Reports ordered after attack on girlfriend

A 35-year-old Pembroke man was promised a prison sentence after he admitted to stabbing an ex-girlfriend in the back.

Kenneth Simmons of Pitts Bay Road pleaded guilty to unlawfully wounding Carla DeSilva on November 27 in Pembroke.

Crown Counsel Paula Tyndale said at 7 a.m. that day Ms DeSilva was in bed at her Elliott Street home when Simmons came to visit.

The pair had once had a personal relationship but had since become estranged, she said.

?The victim told him to leave her home but she was attacked from behind,? the prosecutor said. ?She felt two to three jabs to her back.?

?What the hell are you doing?? the victim cried. ?Don?t be punching me like that!?

However, she felt dampness on her nightdress and realised she was wounded. A stainless steel kitchen knife lay broken in two and covered in blood in her apartment, she said.

She was treated at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for a puncture wound to the back.

Simmons was arrested and admitted to Police he had been in a heated verbal exchange with Ms DeSilva. ?I don?t remember stabbing her,? Simmons said in court. ?The only reason I pleaded guilty was only her and I were in the room.?

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner said stabbing someone was a serious offence and under new legislation, he was liable to three years imprisonment on summary conviction or ten years in Supreme Court.

?In my view, based on previous convictions, you have a propensity for violence and at this stage I feel you should go to prison,? Mr. Warner told him, before ordering a pre-sentencing Social Inquiry Report and Psychiatric report to be completed in order for him to better know ?how to deal with? him.

Simmons was remanded in custody to appear for sentencing on January 13.

Father defends son?s road rage attack

Road rage cost a Sandys teen $1,000 after he admitted he gave another driver a bloody nose and a kick to the back of the head following a road traffic collision.

Antinoni Butterfield, 18, of Cochrane Road, Ireland Island South, Sandys pleaded guilty in Magistrates? Court yesterday to committing assault occasioning bodily harm in Sandys on September 27. Crown counsel Paula Tyndale said at 7.26 a.m. that day Butterfield was riding west on Somerset Road when he hit a car. ?After the collision the man tried to get out of the car but the defendant was angrily shouting obscenities and he punched him in the nose,? Ms Tyndale said.

But as the car driver got out of his vehicle Butterfield kicked him in the back of the head, she said. Butterfield was arrested and confessed. ?He almost killed me,? he said.

Butterfield?s father told the court his son had got ?a little excited?.

?A little excited!? Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner asked. ?Do you think that was an appropriate response??

The teen conceded his response was not appropriate but said he acted out because after the collision, the driver was more concerned about his vehicle then for Butterfield?s health.