‘Impaired’ accused in ice-pick robbery on $150,000 bail

An allegedly handicapped man, accused of robbing a man while armed with an ice pick, was granted $150,000 when he appeared at the reopened Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Avenue of the Republic and Brickdam yesterday.

Christopher Gonsalves, 22, pleaded not guilty when the charge of robbing Sean Persaud of a gold chain while being armed with a weapon was read to him by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

The police allege that on January 15, at about 14:30 hrs in Georgetown, Gonsalves and another man on a