October 5, 2009
Star News


Major Mackerel attacked - Slashed with samurai sword by jealous neighbour
“A Jamaican reggae star was hospitalized in Brooklyn Sunday after he was attacked by a jealous husband wielding a two-foot samurai sword, police and witnesses said. Major Mackerel, whose real name is Garfield Dixon.... read more
Bounty Killer arrested for marijuana possession

Popular deejay Bounty Killer has once again found himself on the wrong side of the law. The artiste, born Rodney Pryce, was arrested by police early yesterday after being found in possession of marijuana.

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Police sergeant freed

The absence of the complainant in a corruption case allowed a police sergeant to be freed in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court on Friday. Detective Sergeant Dennis Arthurs of the St Catherine North Division...

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Nineteen-year-old prisoner escapes

A 19-year-old prisoner escaped from the Bog Walk Police Station in St Catherine yesterday. He is Damion Spence of High Mountain district, Bog Walk.

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Criminal dies in Portmore Lane shootout

One of a group of men who engaged lawmen in a shoot-out at Portmore Lane in Cumberland Meadows, St. Catherine on Saturday night, was fatally wounded and an illegal gun seized.

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Seventy arrested in major operation freed

Seventy of the 72 people taken into police custody on Saturday following a major operation in Port Henderson Road, St Catherine, have been released. The other two, Omar Walker and Andre Silvera, were charged with shooting...

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3 month old dies, cops arrest father

A 20-year-old man charged with the death of his three-month-old son was granted bail in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court recently. Orville Brown, from Gutters, St Catherine, was granted bail by Resident Magistrate...

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British Honorary Consul murder suspect held

A suspect has reportedly been held in connection with the murder of John Terry, the former British Honorary Consul to Jamaica. Investigators at the Major Investigation Task Force say a 23-year-old St Catherine man...

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Higgler gets bail

Despite objections from the Crown that Marcus Williams, higgler, of a Kingston 2 address should not be granted bail, Supreme Court Judge Kay Beckford, said she had to grant him bail because of what transpired ...

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Kurt Riley arrested, charged

Selector Kurt Riley was arrested and charged by the police early yesterday morning, after he allegedly disobeyed orders to turn off the music at 'Stir it up' party, which was being held at Mas Camp in St Andrew.

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Drug mule imprisoned

A British man who ingested a pound of cocaine packaged in 42 pellets, was on Friday fined $450,000 in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court and sentenced to a year in prison.

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Man who allegedly threatened witness remanded

A man who reportedly threatened a Crown witness in a gun related matter was remanded until October 20 in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Friday. Allegations are that Kareem Allen called the witness...

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