On Monday, April 14, 7News told you about the search at #10 Far West Street where the police found bullets and a small quantity of weed. Well tonight, the suspicion is that one of the accused persons is working the system to try to avoid being remanded for those illegal items.
As we told you on Sunday, April 13, police searched the house and found 2 bullets and 1.2 grams of weed. Present at the time were 23 year old Nicoli Rhys, 27 year old Shane McKoy, 18 year old Rheonna Rivero, 18 year old Godwin Neal Jr. a 17 year old male student of Wesley High School and Bernadette Samuels, a nurse at KHMH.
All 6 persons were charged with keeping unlicensed ammunition and drug possession, but only 5 of them could be arraigned and remanded. At the time of the arraignment, Nurse Samuels collapsed from high blood pressure, and she had to be hospitalized at the KHMH, where she works. The problem is that there are grumblings from the police department that she may be using her connect at her workplace to get the doctors to give her more bed rest. That means that she can’t be arraigned, and she can’t be remanded. The suspicion is that she is holding off until her attorney can make arrangements to get her arraigned and bailed at the appropriate time so that she can avoid going to jail altogether. That’s a problem for them because apart from her finding a possible loophole in the system, they’re wasting manpower to keep guard over her.
Today, we spoke with the Communication’s officer for KHMH about the concern, and he told us that while he understands the issue, it is not for persons who are unqualified in medicine to overturn the decisions of a trained physician. He adds that everyone will have to abide by the judgment of Samuels’s doctor, who says that she is ill and cannot be arraigned at this time.
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