Homeless man fined for stealing battery

Kumar Shaw

Kumar Shaw, a homeless man who admitted to stealing a battery from a minibus, was fined yesterday for the crime after he failed to convince a city magistrate to allow him to do community service as his punishment.

Shaw, who told Senior Magistrate Leron Daly that he lives at the side of the Sharon’s Mall building at Charlotte and King streets, pleaded guilty to the charge that on July 15th, at Regent Road, Georgetown,