St Catherine labourers plead guilty to farm theft
Published:Thursday | November 17, 2022 | 4:00 PM
Two St Catherine men who stole oranges valued at $209,000 from a farm in the parish pleaded guilty to praedial larceny in the St Catherine Parish Court on Wednesday.
Kevoy Campbell, 20, and 21-year-old Luke Gayle, both labourers of West Prospect in Bog Walk, are to be sentenced on December 15.
Parish judge Natalie Creary-Dixon ordered that a social inquiry report be done by the probation department.
The facts of the case are that about 8 p.m.
on Saturday, November 12, the police, acting on intelligence, held both men were near Bog Walk with 29 bags of oranges valued at $209,000.
They were taken into custody and following an investigation, they were charged with praedial larceny.
- Rasbert Turner
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