Despite their pleas to the Magistrate for leniency and to be granted bail, two Georgetown youths were yesterday remanded to prison after being slapped with two counts of robbery under arms charges when they appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates Court.
The defendants, 22-year-old Devon Pattenson also called ‘Black Jesus’, a mason of Lot WW Hadfield Street, Georgetown, and Mario Howes, 18, a horse-cart operator of Lot 475 Rasville, Georgetown made their appearance before Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus who read a joint charge to them.
The particulars of the offence alleges that on March 2 at Bourda Market, Georgetown, while being in the company of each other and armed with a knife, they robbed Ronnie Grouper of one Samsung Galaxy S20 cellular phone valued at $160,000, and $170,000 in cash.
