Entrusted with a beverage cart, vendor Sherwin Benjamin allegedly ended up using it for his own gain, a city court heard yesterday.
The charge against Benjamin, 25, is that on May 2, at High Street, Georgetown, being entrusted by Randolph Glasgow with a cool down cart and cooler containing beverages all totalling $70,550, he fraudulently converted the items to his own use and benefit. All the items belonged to Princess Peters.
Benjamin, who gave his address as 100 South Better Hope, East Coast Demerara, denied the charge when it was read to him by Magistrate Judy Latchman.
No details other than those mentioned in the charge were presented to the court.
Prosecutor Vishnu Hunt objected to Benjamin being granted bail since according to police reports he has no fixed place of abode even though he had given both the police and the court the Better Hope address.
Benjamin, however, vehemently denied Hunt’s claim, while noting that he has always lived at that address with his mother and continues to live there even though the woman has died.
Hunt further objected to bail on the grounds that the defendant has been convicted for similar offences on three or four previous occasions—another claim Benjamin refuted.
According to Benjamin, he has been convicted once before. “Prison records will show I only had one conviction in my whole life,” he emphasised.
Nevertheless, the magistrate informed Benjamin that he would be remanded to prison until October 18, when the case will be called at Court 10.
