By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A 44-year-old man was imprisoned yesterday after police allegedly caught him with a stolen vehicle after a chase in Montell Heights last weekend.
Assistant Chief Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans charged Alex Williams with possession of unlicensed ammunition and two counts of armed robbery.
Williams, while allegedly armed with a .40 Austria Glock pistol, is accused of robbing Jamal Forbes of $311 and Genovia Pinder of her $12k 2012 Chevy Traverse Jeep in the Sears Hill area on February 18.
Later that day, the accused allegedly led police on a high-speed chase on Montrose Avenue in the same stolen vehicle. After abandoning the car and trying to evade capture on foot in Montell Heights, the defendant allegedly threw the gun into a nearby school shortly before his arrest.
Authorities later recovered the Glock pistol with six rounds of ammunition in that vicinity.
Although Williams pleaded not guilty to the firearm charges, he was informed that the armed robbery charges would proceed to the Supreme Court by way of a voluntary bill of indictment.
Although he was granted $7,000 bail with one or two sureties for the firearm charge, he will be remanded to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services on the armed robbery charge.
His firearm trial will begin before the magistrate on March 22. His VBI is set for service on May 16.
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