'Hit list' teens to be tried in December on drug charges

Two teens who fled the Island will have their drugs trial heard in their absence.

Sadune Raynor, 16, and Jafari Raynor, 17, were escorted off the Island by Police after their names appeared at the top of a hit list, according to their lawyer Llewelyn Peniston.

The brothers are accused of possessing up to 1.69 grams of cocaine and four grams of cannabis in a room at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess on April 2. Their 37-year-old mother, Erica Raynor, her 22-year-old boyfriend, Temiko Wilson and 19-year-old Dayrion McCalla, have also been charged.

They have all denied the charges.

At a hearing yesterday, Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo said the trial would go ahead, with or without the teenagers, on December 6.

Pembroke man fined for having a crack pipe

A Pembroke man was fined $300 for being in possession of a homemade crack pipe. Henry Santucci was charged yesterday in Magistrates' Court for the offence.

The court heard Police officers were conducting a liquor licence check at Swinging Doors on Court Street, at 2.40 a.m. on February 21. When the officers walked into the door Santucci was seen fidgeting with his jacket and was searched.

Officers found a glass bottle which had been converted into a pipe. Santucci was arrested and the bottle was found to have cocaine residue.

He was fined $300 by Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner.

Woman injured in hit-and-run road accident

Police attended a hit-and-run in Devonshire where two cars collided, sending the driver and passenger of one of the cars to hospital.

The accident happened at the junction of Roberts Avenue and Parsons Road at 11 p.m. Saturday night. According to a Police statement, the cars were travelling in opposite directions on Roberts Avenue when they hit.

One car left the scene following the collision. It was later found with no one in it, and impounded.

The driver of the other car, a 32-year-old Hamilton Parish woman, cut her right knee. Her passenger, a 31-year-old Warwick woman, suffered pain to her chest.