He allegedly snatched a gold chain, pawned it, was caught, and is now serving time.
Twenty eight year old butcher Anthony "Bubbles" Smith, appeared in the Magistrate's Court and pleaded guilty to handling stolen goods. Magistrate Emmerson Banner fined him two thousand dollars and ordered him to pay five hundred dollars forthwith and the balance by October 15.
Smith was unable to come up with the five hundred dollars so he was taken to prison to begin serving a term of 2 years. The gold chain which has a value of one thousand, five hundred dollars was stolen from 48 year old school warden Joan Anderson during a robbery which occurred around 8:30a.m. on Friday August 26.
Anderson was walking on Freetown Road when a man riding a bicycle snatched her gold chain from her neck and rode off. Police recovered the chain later the same day from a local pawn ship. Smith was not detained by police until Saturday, September 10.
