Looting: four Dominicans sentenced to community service (continued)

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Couple denounced for storing stolen objects

He is 57 years old, she is 50. They live in a house in the rue de Hollande, where the gendarmes went to search following information. They discovered clothes, household appliances, tools, as well as a stolen sofa, notably in DIY and decoration stores in Bellevue. The man admits having stolen the tools but claims that the other objects were given to him. His partner will explain that he found the sofa outside the store, outside the door. "The roof of the house is gone, I had no bed, nothing to sleep on so I took the sofa," she explained with tears in her eyes and asking for forgiveness.

Both have already been convicted, he in 2004 for driving under the influence of an alcoholic state, she in 2011 and 2012 by the court of Basse-Terre for driving without a license.

In accordance with the prosecution's requisitions, the court sentenced the man to a two-month suspended prison sentence and eighty hours of community service to be completed within eighteen months; women working forty hours of community service within eighteen months.

He takes the stolen things that his partner gives him

According to information received, the gendarmes went to search the home of this fifty-year-old man to see if he was in possession of stolen objects. At his home in Bellevue, the soldiers discovered a vacuum cleaner, two desk lamps, three cartons of champagne, tools, a steam iron, a carton of toys, glasses, a child's car, chairs, two carpets. games for children, an iron, five cartons of wine, a baby carrier, a bag full of children's shoes, an umbrella bed and an electric grinder. To investigators, he said that these objects were given to him by his partner and other people. He also said that someone was offering champagne.

In accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution, the court sentenced the man to a two-month suspended prison sentence and eighty hours of community service to be completed within eighteen months.

Other Dominican defendants are summoned to court at later dates. (Source: www.soualigapost.com)

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