Troubled Sophia teen fined $50,000

A teenaged boy charged with armed robberies was on Thursday fined a total of $50,000 and ordered to attend counselling for alcoholic and narcotics abuse, after the reading of a probation report.

Mowally Clarke, 18, was charged last month with two armed robbery offences and pleaded guilty to both crimes.

The charges alleged that on July 6, 2017 at Lot 52 North Road, Bourda, Clarke armed with a knife, robbed Saheed Khan of one S5 Samsung cellphone, valued at $120,000, and Joel Ramsarran of a Samsung S4 cellphone valued at $45,000.