Notorious car thief Paul Helmsley, a 39-year-old auto mechanic qas convicted of car theft and was fined three weeks ago but today he was back in the same court for the same thing with the same make of car! Today he was accused of stealing a Toyota Corolla from Marciano Pena on January 22nd of this year. The car had been parked at the corner of Vernon Street and Magazine Road. This Time instead of a fine, Magistrate Sharon Frazer sentenced him to three years in prison.
Police found the car after it had already been scrapped and the chassis was found a month later at a garbage dumpsite in Dangriga. It had been sold to a mechanic in that southern town for $500. Two other cars, Toyota Camry's were also found at that time in Dangriga. Helmsley's conviction three weeks ago was for the theft of one of those, and he had a trial pending for the theft of another one of those Camry's.
