Christopher Thomas, STAR Writer
WESTERN BUREAU:
A St James man who admitted to stealing a woman's hose late last month, was given a suspended sentence when he appeared in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Thursday.
Michael Watson, from Montego Bay, pleaded guilty to simple larceny.
The court was told that, on March 25, the female complainant left a hose, valued at $4000, in her yard, but on her return, she discovered that the hose was missing.
The police were contacted and subsequent investigations led them to an area where they saw a vehicle belonging to Watson, with the hose close by. Watson subsequently arrived on the scene and admitted to taking the hose. He was arrested and charged.
When the case was called up, Resident Magistrate Carolyn Tie reprimanded Watson.
"How much does a hose cost, sir? Instead of trying to find out how much a hose costs, you decided to steal someone else's hose. Why did you steal the lady's hose?" asked RM Tie.
"I cannot answer that," Watson replied.
"Then you have a problem," RM Tie remarked.
Watson was subsequently given a three-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.
"You cannot steal other people's things, and if you do it again you will go to prison," RM Tie warned Watson.
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