-man on $50,000 bail
Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Tuesday granted a 20-year-old man accused of stealing a quantity of Euros from a woman $50,000 bail when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Rawlston Sampson, of 360 North Ruimveldt, pleaded not guilty to a simple larceny charge which stated that on Thursday he stole 600 Euros equivalent to $160, 000, from Allison Hunte.
In his defence Sampson told the court that on Wednesday he had collected Hunte from the airport, at her request, and had driven her to a hotel at which he had also been staying. He said she put her luggage into a room and he then drove her to a salon. Sampson said he and Hunte later returned to the hotel where she changed her clothing and they then proceeded to a night club where they stayed until 3 am.
The man said after they returned to the room he undressed and as he was going to his room he observed Hunte placing a quantity of cash in a pair of boots. He said the next morning Hunte woke him and asked him to accompany her to do some shopping but he had told her that he needed to clean their rooms as she was leaving the country soon.
He said when Hunte got back to the hotel and checked the boots she found that some of the money was missing and she asked him about it. Sampson then told the court that he did not steal the money. “She tell me is 400 Euros she missing and some 50 Euros somewhere else,” he said, adding that if he had stolen the money he would not have stayed around for her to notice that it was missing.
Meanwhile, Hunte said she had put the money into the boots and that she had “fix de boots in a certain way.” The woman said on her return to the hotel she found the boots “neatly fixed in a corner.” She said on checking them she discovered the money missing. Hunte further stated that she had asked Sampson about the money but that he had denied taking it.
She then told the court that this was the second time that this had happened to her but that Sampson had not been involved on the first occasion.
The magistrate then ordered Sampson to appear in Court Two on Tuesday.
