Repeat offended gets more years behind bars

He is already serving a fourteen month jail term for handling stolen goods and today, Richard Ferguson, was sentenced to six more years behind bars for burglary. Ferguson, who was chopped in the head during another robbery, was actually hospitalized for that injury.  But as the recidivism rate shows, he couldn’t help but commit another crime again, this time escape. The repeat offender escaped through a window from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and proceeded to commit another burglary.  It is reported that on November twenty-seventh, 2009, he entered the home of fifty-four year old Cynthia Anderson. Anderson who testified earlier this week, told the court that she had just left home—between eight-forty-five and nine p.m.—to make a purchase at a neighborhood store and when she returned home, she saw Ferguson, a neighbour, coming out of her yard. She reported that she noticed that he was riding a bicycle and in his hand he held a black and grey purse. However, it was not until she reached inside her home that she realized that the purse in her neighbor’s hand was actually hers.    Inside her purse she had a twenty dollar note, a three hundred dollars cell phone, a fifty dollar phone chip and a few miscellaneous items. Police investigations later led them to Ferguson’s home, located on Partridge Street Extension, where a number of Anderson’s stolen items were found. What also makes this case interesting is that Ferguson has yet another burglary case set for trial on July nineteenth, in which he is being accused of entering the home of another woman on Kelly Street, three days prior to this burglary. Ferguson maintained his innocence, however, before pronouncing him guilty of the charges, Magistrate Dorothy Flowers noted that he never contested the allegations made and that the evidence was overwhelming against him. At the end of the magistrate’s ruling, Ferguson said that he plans to appeal.