A man who stole machinery valued $180,000 from his brother to get his attention because he wanted a job was sentenced to community service when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan last week.
The court heard that between October 8 and 9, Joseph Smith, 28, of Nelson Street, Mocha, East Bank Demerara, broke and entered a storage bond and stole a generator and a pressure washer from Andrew Dublin, who is his brother.
Pleading guilty to the offence, Smith told the chief magistrate that he
