Accused admits he was one of the robbers

A St Michael man has admitted his guilt in a 10-year-old armed robbery.

Wayne Adrian “Pinchers” Lovell, from Blackmans Road, My Lord’s Hill confessed before High Court Judge Christopher Birch to two offences – robbery and aggravated burglary. Short man; Gas and Chicken were also named as the alias of those taking part in the robbery.

The convicted man admitted to entering Shell Pilgrim Place Service Station on December 19, 2011 with other persons and stealing $1 009. 31 while armed with a firearm. He also took responsibility for robbing Renaldo Lewis, a customer service attendant at the service station, of $143. 78 cash on the same night.

According to Crown Counsel Joyann Catwell, the customer service attendant reported that around 8:30 p.m. that day two men, one of whom was armed with a gun came onto the compound and one robbed him. A former manager of the business also reported that the men entered the service station and stole the money at gunpoint.

The incident occurred near the close of the night shift. Reading the facts, Catwell told Supreme Court No. 5a that one man entered the store with the gun while the other tried to kick down a door on the inside of the store. They were wearing masks.

The one with the gun pointed it at one of the attendants and said ‘yes pass it’ while the other guy kicked the door and screamed ‘you think this is a joke, you think this is a joke!’ The attendant took the money out of the point of sale machine and placed it on the counter. The men took the money and left.

Lovell was questioned about the incident on June 6, 2012.

He told lawmen “Me, Short man, Gas and Chicken went down there. Gas and Chicken is who robbed de place. I ain’t get out de car”.

Lovell is deemed “a menace to society” on his criminal records card which contains seven prior convictions. He dictated a statement to police.

“The night time Me, Short man, Gas and Chicken decide that we gone rob a gas station in Christ church,” said the statement read by prosecutor Catwell. He explained that they then got into a car, passed in front of the gas station and noted that ‘everything look good’. They parked the vehicle in a back road.

“Short man give Chicken a gun. Chicken and Gas get out the car and went towards the gas station,” he said adding that about five or seven minutes later the two ran back to the vehicle and “Chicken say ‘go long, go long we got everyting’.”

He added that they went back to the location from which they had come and the money “get dish out”. “All of we get the same amount. I spend my money in food, bus fare and haircuts,” he told the cops.

Lovell, who is represented by attorney-at-law Marlon Gordon, will reappear before Justice Birch on September 17.