{"id":2404,"date":"2019-06-12T19:04:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2019-06-12T19:04:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:04:42","slug":"bus-driver-attempts-to-poison-vice-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2404","title":{"rendered":"Bus driver attempts to poison vice principal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Marcia Scott<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It didn\u2019t prove to be a piece of cake for 56-year-old Norval Bulgin, a Montego Bay Community College bus driver who allegedly solicited the help of a student, in an attempt to poison the institution\u2019s vice principal, whom he learnt wanted to have him fired.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, as the 56-year-old awaited a determination on\nwhether his case would be transferred from the parish court to the Circuit\nCourt, details of the alleged charges against him were read out in the\ncourtroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On April 16, it is alleged, after learning that the\ninstitution\u2019s vice principal wanted to have him fired, Bulgin took matters into\nhis own hands, and secured a poisoned cake which he intended to have the school\nadministrator partake of. It is further alleged that Bulgin then identified a\nstudent whom he offered to pay, on the grounds that the student delivered the\ncake to Carol Walters, the vice principal in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The student ultimately refused Bulgin\u2019s offer, and\nsubsequently contacted and reported the matter to the school\u2019s administration,\nwhich then contacted the police. Following investigations, Bulgin was arrested\nand charged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presiding judge, Sandria Wong-Small, in having Bulgin answer\nto a charge of soliciting to murder, shared \u201cAs it relates to this matter, the\nprosecution is ready to have a committal hearing.\u201d The prosecution was also\nready to serve said documents on Bulgin\u2019s defence attorney, Oswest\nSenior-Smith, the judge confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wong-Small also indicated that \u201c\u2026 the bundle is to be served\non defense counsel on or before June 24,\u201d before extending Bulgin\u2019s bail offer,\nwhich he had taken up during a previous court appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bulgin is to return to court for his July 5 committal\nhearing. If he is found to be guilty of the charge laid against him, he could\nface a sentence of up to five years to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It didn\u2019t prove to be a piece of cake for 56-year-old Norval Bulgin, a Montego Bay Community College bus driver who allegedly solicited the help of a student, in an attempt to poison the institution\u2019s vice principal, whom he learnt wanted to have him fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-western-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}