Jess Dawson could not meet bail, sent to jail

And in the Belmopan Magistrates’ Court, thirty-eight year old Jess Dawson, a construction worker of Franks Eddy Village who pleaded not guilty to Theft when he first appeared in Court, today had a change of heart and took a guilty plea. Dawson is accused of stealing a number of items from the farm of forty-nine year old Rufina Keady at Franks Eddy Village between August third and eleventh. The items include a yellow trailer, a truck body with six tires, four gas tanks, a roll of chain link wire, an electric chain saw, two electric motors and several other items with a total value of twenty-eight thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars. Magistrate Earl Jones fined Dawson three thousand dollars and ordered him to pay five hundred dollars immediately and the balance by December thirtieth. Dawson could not meet the first payment and was taken to prison to begin serving a three year sentence.