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Two stole gov’t computers

By Carol Winker, carol@cfp.ky
Sunday 10th May, 2009 Posted: 14:25 CIT (19:25 GMT)

Two computer technicians were ordered to perform 75 hours of community service after pleading guilty to the theft of two laptop computers with a total value of $11,677.06, the property of the Cayman Islands Government.

Jovin Omar Fuentes was 18 when the thefts occurred in August 2008. Jordan Martin Belfoure was 17.

Crown Counsel Tanya Lobban said police attended the Glass House after receiving a report from a worker there. The officers were shown a Closed Circuit TV recording of an area from which the laptops had gone missing. It appeared to show Fuentes and Belfoure concealing the laptops and trying to dispose of the packaging.

The young men were spoken to. Fuentes admitted where a laptop was. Officers visited the premises of a third person and found the laptop.

It was subsequently established that a second laptop had been taken and it also was recovered.

The method of theft was to hide the laptop in a box containing another laptop that was being taken out of the Glass House on a genuine delivery.

Ms Lobban said neither defendant had a record of any previous convictions.

Attorney Phillip McGhee asked Magistrate Grace Donalds to consider the social inquiry report for Fuentes, which he said “sets out the situation fully.”

On behalf of Belfoure, Attorney Edward Renvoize also relied on the social inquiry report. He handed up several character references which he said described what efforts his client had made since the incident to get back on the straight and narrow.

The magistrate did not comment on the contents of the two reports but indicated she was taking into account the defendants’ guilty pleas. In addition to the community service orders, Fuentes and Belfoure were each placed on probation for 12 months.