Cop charged in connection to larceny faces additional charges

Additional charges have been laid against a police corporal of the Protective Services Division in connection to the theft of a motor vehicle, according to a press release from the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency.

Corporal Stafford Barrett, who had been on bail for the offences of simple larceny and receiving stolen property, was yesterday charged with fraudulent conversion and fraudulent use of registration plates.

Barrett was initially charged for simple larceny and receiving stolen property on May 23, 2014 by detectives from the then Anti-Corruption Branch. He was taken into custody following the recovery of a stolen Toyota Corolla motor car at his home in Spanish Town, St Catherine. The motor car was reported stolen in Hopewell, Hanover, on May 9.

He appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court on May 27, where he was granted bail in the sum of $800, 0000.

Barrett is scheduled to appear in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, October 28, to answer to all charges.

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Cop charged in connection to larceny faces additional charges

Kitson Town man on larceny rap gets bail

Rasbert Turner, STAR Writer

A St Catherine man who was allegedly held scrapping a stolen car was granted $150,000 bail when he appeared in court on Tuesday.

Martin Tulloch, 32-year-old unemployed of Kingland district, Kitson Town, St Catherine, is charged with larceny of a motor vehicle.

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When the matter was mentioned, Tulloch’s lawyer made a successful bail application saying that when her client was held he was looking parts to purchase for his vehicle.

Bail was granted on condition that he reports three times weekly to the Guanoboa Vale Police Station and return to court on November 22.

Allegations are that on May 29, a 2012 Toyota Corolla rented to China Harbour Engineering Company was stolen in Linstead.

A search was launched and the police went to Kingland district, St Catherine, where four persons including the accused were seen scrapping the stolen car.

The other men ran and Tulloch was held by the police and later charged with larceny of a motor vehicle.

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Kitson Town man on larceny rap gets bail

Farmers want guns to tackle praedial larceny

    
The Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) will be making a recommendation to the Government, for the issuing of gun licenses to farmers as part of  efforts to tackle praedial larceny.
JAS President, Norman Grant, says farmers are frustrated with the high rate of  praedial larceny, which has resulted in nearly J$6 billion  in losses.

Some farmers argue that strategies, designed to address praedial larceny, are not effective.
Grant told JAS members at the organisations  119th Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, that he will seek a meeting with the Ministry of  National Security, to determine how a framework for the gun licence recommendation can be developed.

“The farmers have said we need you Mr. President to lobby so that we can fall in a special category for gun license to protect lives on our property, when the thieves go to the fields, they come armed and dangerous. I have to listen to the farmers and we are going to give it some strong consideration,” he said.

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Farmers want guns to tackle praedial larceny