Minor gets one year for handling stolen goods

A minor received a sentence of one year imprisonment for Handling Stolen Goods in Magistrates’ Court today. The seventeen year old is one of two persons charged with the burglary of Tang Supermarket on Vasquez Avenue. The charge of handling stolen goods was for five empty five gallon water bottles that the police found in the possession of the minor and twenty-one year old Eugene McFoy, who was similarly charged.

Chinese businessman, thirty year old Zhan Chu Chen, the owner of Tangs Supermarket, reported to police that the business was burglarized between nine o’clock on November fourth and seven o’clock the following morning. Chen reported that five full water bottles and twenty-two empty five gallon bottles were stolen. This past Wednesday, at about five o’clock a police patrol apprehended the minor and McFoy on Princess Margaret Drive near the roundabout when they were seen carrying five empty water bottles. McFoy pleaded not guilty to burglary and wanted to take a guilty plea in respect of the charge of handling stolen goods but had a change of heart saying he was alone, riding to warm up his bones and that he did not have any water bottles in his possession. Magistrate Sharon Fraser offered McFoy bail of four thousand dollars and adjourned his case to December twenty-third. But before he can meet bail, McFoy must pay an outstanding court fine of one hundred and fifty-five dollars.