The thief and the handler of stolen snacks ended up being remanded to prison yesterday.
Both men admitted their part in the crime in which several snacks were stolen from a truck on the compound of Barbados Confectionery Limited (BCL). Some of them ended up alongside the road for sale on Codrington Hill, St Michael.
Repeat offender Timothy Anderson Trotman, 49, was listed as having no fixed place of abode, but he told Magistrate Graveney Bannister in Criminal Court No. 1 that his address was Storey Gap, Codrington Hill, St Michael.
He admitted that between March 24 and 25 he stole, among other things, 41 boxes of chocolates, ping pongs, cheers, nuts, bobbies and Devon biscuits belonging to BCL, totalling $5 017.
Prosecutor Station Sergeant Chrisna Williams said the trucks were packed with the snacks on March 24 and left overnight in the yard of BCL to be on the road the next day. Trotman broke into the compound and the vehicle and made off with the stock.
Police spotted him with some of the items and he admitted to stealing them. He was remanded to Dodds Prison until April 24 and a pre-sentencing report ordered.
Dwayne Anderson Hutchinson, 43, who was also listed as having no fixed place of abode but told the court he also lived in Storey Gap, said he was not a thief but a beggar.
He confessed to knowing the items, including nuts, biscuits and chocolates totalling $1 282 were stolen, and assisted in the retention of them on March 25.
Hutchinson said Trotman put the items behind a wall and when the police were about, he asked why they wanted Trotman but they told him to go away.
He had a box of snacks and when the owner came around the area, he told him where Trotman had put the snacks in the garbage.
“I beg, I don’t steal,” Hutchinson said.
Prosecutor Williams said police went to Codrington Hill after receiving information and found the snacks displayed on a wall for sale by Hutchinson.
The repeat offender said Trotman put the items there and he was going to sell them to get money to buy something to eat.
The handler told the court he was behaving himself and had been off drugs after going through a court-ordered programme.
He was similarly remanded and a pre-sentencing report ordered.
