Clarendon teen charged in $83,000 home theft as Ranker gang trial stalls again

A juvenile has been charged with housebreaking and larceny after $83,000 was taken from a home in Spalding, Clarendon, on May 12. The homeowner had locked up and left on an errand; on return she found a damaged kitchen window and the cash gone. Spalding police opened a probe, and Technical Service Division officers processed the scene and lifted latent prints from the glass. On Thursday, May 14, the girl’s mother returned $49,000 to the victim after reportedly finding it with the teen, who allegedly admitted the break-in. On Friday the youth and her mother attended Spalding station; she was charged, granted bail, and released to her mother pending further court steps.

Ryan Powell, 20, of Jane Marks Road, Georgia Splaine, Westmoreland, faces assault occasioning grievous bodily harm and assault occasioning actual bodily harm after a May 10 dispute in his community. Savannah-la-Mar police say that around 11:00 a.m. he struck a woman with a stone and a board, causing bruising, swelling, and a broken arm. She reported the matter; Powell surrendered on Saturday and was charged, with a court date still being set.

Easton Stewart, 33, a labourer of Pink Lane, Kingston, died on Saturday in a suspected electrocution while picking breadfruit. About 1:30 p.m., police say, the stick he used caught a live wire; he was shocked, taken to Kingston Public Hospital, and pronounced dead. Denham Town police are investigating.

Valdy Thomas, 20, of Lowe River, Trelawny, died in a two-vehicle crash on the Sedbergh main road near Christiana, Manchester, on Saturday night. Around 9:50 p.m. his green 2025 Missile CG 250 motorcycle collided with a grey 2003 Toyota Probox; he was thrown and pronounced dead at Percy Junor Hospital in Spalding.

Three Cubans—Esquel Hernandez, Alfredo Castro Pupo, and Oslani Caniero Torres—were fined and ordered removed after pleading guilty to illegal entry in the St. James Parish Court last Wednesday before Judge Natisha Fairclough-Hilton. The court heard they arrived by boat on October 28, 2024, landed at Lilliput, stayed five days, then worked in Coral Spring for four months and later with a construction firm in Coral Springs until arrest on May 8, without contacting immigration. Each was fined $5,000 or five days in jail.

Eight months after Supreme Court Justice Layton Pusey warned counsel to be trial-ready, proceedings against eight alleged Ranker gang members remain stalled. A September 16, 2025 date was vacated last July; an April 13–June 15, 2026 window was also set aside after readiness hearings slipped into 2026. On April 30 the Crown had no specifically assigned prosecutor; Pusey gave until May 14 for a trial timetable and witness lists, but on Thursday the prosecution said files were still incomplete. Defence lawyers sought bail for four accused still in custody—Tafari Silvera, Tenille Francis, David Henry, and Octavia Henriques—among seven men and one woman charged under the Anti-Gang Law over offences said to span nine parishes from 2019 to 2021. Pusey indicated he would hear those bail applications. The group has been linked to 17 incidents including shootings, burglary, aggravated robbery, illegal firearms, shopbreaking, conspiracy to murder, and abduction.