The Tribune

By PAVEL BAILEY

Tribune Staff Reporter

pbailey@tribunemedia.net

A MAN charged with murder was fined $2,000 after admitting to breaching curfew four times.

Jacob Rolle, 29, was charged with ten counts of bail violation yesterday. The Supreme Court granted him bail after he was accused of killing Randy Rolle on Balfour Avenue on October 24, 2017.

While on release for that charge, Rolle allegedly failed to charge his electronic monitoring device (EMD) on six occasions between December 21, 2022, and February 8, 2023.

Between January 27 and February 6, he breached his nightly residential curfew four times.

The prosecutor withdrew the six EMD charges after concluding the device was malfunctioning.

Rolle then pleaded guilty to the four curfew breaches.

Rolle’s attorney, Glendon Rolle, said his client was taking his wife to the hospital at the time of the charge on January 27. He said the remaining curfew breaches were because the defendant was working late. He also said Rolle was remorseful for his actions.

Senior Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans took issue with Rolle taking on a late working shift while having a curfew and without informing the court first.

Attorney Rolle told the magistrate his client had quit his job to accommodate his curfew.

The defendant was fined $2,000 for the offence and will face one year in prison if he does not pay the fine. Following his sentencing, he was warned that he would receive no future consideration for further bail violations.