Three men were recently convicted in the Trelawny Parish Court in relation to the theft of copper cables belonging to telecommunications company FLOW but had their sentences suspended. The cables were valued at $1.2 million. Milton Davis, 43, an electrician, and 46 year old labourer, Junior Harrison were sentenced to seven months at hard labour, suspended for two years. The third accused, 24 year-old Kerone Brown, was sentenced to six months at hard labour, suspended for two years. The men, from Pineapple Lane in Bog Walk, St Catherine, pleaded guilty on October 14 to charges of simple larceny, malicious destruction of property and trespassing on the telecommunications work of FLOW. They were sentenced on October 28 by Senior Parish Judge Vaughn Facey. On the afternoon of May 22, the three men were caught by the police cutting and loading copper cables into a motorcar along the Braco Rio Bueno main road in Trelawny. Checks by FLOW carried out that same day revealed that underground cables had been stolen from along same roadway. The men were arrested and later charged.
