PATRICK JAMES IS a grateful man because he received a suspended sentence for allegedly stealing some car parts from a garage along Maxfield Avenue recently.
James, 40 and a labourer of Chisholm Avenue pleaded guilty to simple larceny when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.
The attorney representing James claimed his client was returning from an exotic night club with friends when the friends decided to steal some car parts. He claimed the men left the stolen parts with his client while they went to get transportation to move them. Police later came along and found him with the stolen parts.
James' attorney asked the court to be lenient in handing down its sentence as his client was very remorseful.
Police allegations are that on August 10, the accused and two other young men went to Johnson's Drive In along Maxfield Avenue. One man climbed the perimeter fence to the rear of the premises and removed two headlights, two corner lamp, one front mirror and a front grill valued at $80,000 from a Toyota Hiace motor vehicle.
The caretaker reportedly saw the man and called a security company's Quick Response Team. The team accosted the three men who ran onto the premises.
They were chased and the accused was held and the motor vehicle parts recovered. The accused was taken to the Half-Way Tree police station where he was charged.
After his attorney's pleas, presiding Resident Magistrate Martin Gayle sentenced him to three months imprisonment at hard labour, suspended for a year. The accused thanked the judge and promised not to get in trouble again. "Thank you your honour. I guarantee I nah do it again," James told the court just before being escorted from the courtroom by a police officer.
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