Caught on camera, burglar gets seven and half yrs.

A man caught on camera trying to break into a lawyer’s home has been sentenced to seven and a half years behind bars. Thirty-one year old Dennis Quilter was found guilty of the June 2006 attempted burglary of Emil Arguelles’ house on the Northern Highway. On Thursday Arguelles testified that when he got home that afternoon he noticed a suspicious car driving away from the area. When the homeowner checked his surveillance video, he saw a man scale his fence and then attempt to pry the burglar bars from the windows. Arguelles took the tape to police who identified the culprit as Quilter. Arguelles also told the court that following the incident, the accused appeared at his law office and apologized for the intrusion. But when he spoke in his own defence in court, Quilter denied the allegations, saying he was at his mother’s house when the crime was being committed. However when police brought Elaine Arnold to court today she said she knew nothing about her son’s visit that day and hadn’t seen him for a long time.

Meanwhile, the teenager accused of the armed robbery of registration monies from the Anglican Cathedral College has been remanded until December twenty-second. Nineteen year old Clifton Flores Junior was formally arraigned for burglary before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord today. He pleaded not guilty to the charge but police say Flores was one of two men who walked onto the A.C.C. campus on Albert Street in June with a gun and robbed school officials of more than twelve thousand dollars in cash. Police continue to seek Flores’ accomplice.