43 year-old Reuben Cox, a resident of Biscayne Village, is spending his second night of a 7 year prison sentence after he was convicted in Magistrate Court of burglarizing the compound at Croc Land at mile 25 on the Northern Highway.
The burglary happened on April 3, 2013, and the prosecution's witnesses say that he climbed up on a beam and was attempting steal electric wires to harvest the copper. He had a stroke of misfortune and was caught in the act because he fell from the beam and became unconscious. He was found by personnel at Croc Land, and he was rushed to the KHMH, where police found him and charged him for entering the compound as a trespasser.
In his defence, he said that the watchman gave him permission to enter Croc Land so that he could charge his phone. To explain how he got hurt from climbing on the beam, well, he said that he saw an iguana, and tried to catch it, but he slipped and fell.
Chief Magistrate Smith didn't believe one bit of his story, calling it a "fairy tale". For the guilty verdict, she sentenced him to spend 7 years in prison.
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