The Tribune

By PAVEL BAILEY

Tribune Staff Reporter

pbailey@tribunemedia.net

A man on bail for his alleged involvement in the death of ten-year-old Lorencia Walkes was fined $3,500 yesterday for failing to charge his court-ordered electronic monitoring device (EMD).

Donald Cox, 26, appeared before Magistrate Samuel McKinney on four counts of violating bail conditions.

Cox was accused of the fatal shootings of 5th grader Lorencia Walkes and Perron Bain in Belville Circle in 2020.

While on release for these charges between May 14 and 18, Cox failed to charge his EMD on four occasions.

He pleaded guilty to the offence. He will have to spend six months in prison if he defaults.

• A man was sentenced to one year in prison after admitting to robbing a tourist on Montagu Beach of $500 worth of items, including her passport.

Wallis Rolle, 34, appeared before Assistant Chief Magistrate Subusola Swain on charges of stealing, receiving and deceit of a public officer.

Around noon on May 2, Rolle stole a white slang bag belonging to an American woman tourist on Montagu Beach.

The bag contained $100 cash, the woman’s passport, two cruise boat passes and one portable charge.

Later that day, while trying to evade arrest, the accused gave an officer a fake name: Warren Rolle.

Rolle pleaded guilty to the stealing and deceit charges. The receiving charge was withdrawn.

• A woman and juvenile boy were granted bail after they were charged with having an unlicensed firearm in their home earlier this month.

Lakeisha Higgs, 37, and a 16-year-old male defendant, represented by Bjorn Ferguson and Levan Johnson, appeared before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt to face charges of possession of an unlicensed firearm and possession of ammunition.

Police searched their West Bay Street home on May 15 around 10.22pm and allegedly found a black CPX-1 9mm pistol with the serial number C433823.

The gun allegedly had four unfired rounds of 9mm ammunition. Bail was granted to them at $7,500 each with one or two sureties.

Higgs is expected to sign in to the Cable Beach Police Station every Monday and Thursday by 6pm, while the juvenile defendant is expected to obey a daily 9pm to 7am curfew.