Sticky-fingered miner stole phones, refused to pay for expensive taxi rides

Oswin Archer

A miner accused of stealing several phones from different persons and refusing to pay for expensive taxi rides was remanded to prison when he appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Oswin Archer, 25, a miner of Lot 5 Cumberland Village, East Canje denied charges of simple larceny and obtaining credit by fraud and was remanded to prison by Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus.

Police prosecutor Inspector Phillip Sheriff told the court that Archer committed the offences in