A St. James woman was sentenced to nine months\u2019 imprisonment\nin the St. James Parish Court on Tuesday, July 23, after she was found guilty\nof hiding her son who was placed on the St. James Most Wanted list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pansy Powell of Roehampton, St. James, was facing a charge\nof harbouring a fugitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Powell\u2019s charge stemmed from a report that was made against\nher son, Turay Gunn, at the Granville Police Station on August 19, 2016\nrelating to a shooting incident. As a result, his name was published in the Western\nMirror<\/strong> as amongst St. James Most Wanted on April 26, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Powell was arrested on June 6, 2017 after the police, armed\nwith a search warrant, carried out an operation in search of Gunn and found him\ninside her home. She reportedly told the police that she knew he was wanted but\nhad to protect him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the sentencing proceedings on Tuesday,\nattorney-at-law Henry McCurdy pleaded with presiding judge Sandria Wong-Small,\nsaying his client was remorseful and asked the judge to give her a suspended\nsentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEven if she was to be fined, she could not afford to pay\nthe sum that would have been imposed,\u201d said McCurdy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But Wong-Small said she was not moved by the pleas as Powell\nhad not taken responsibility from the outset and caused the court to conduct a\ntrial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe knew that her son was wanted, and prevented the police\nfrom taking him into custody. She went ahead and perpetuated dishonesty that\ncaused her to be here,\u201d Wong-Small said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wong-Small also pointed out to the attorney that the offence\nwas serious because of the impact it has on society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA strong message has to be sent,\u201d the judge added before\nsentencing Powell to nine months\u2019 imprisonment at hard labour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A St. James woman was sentenced to nine months\u2019 imprisonment in the St. James Parish Court on Tuesday, July 23, after she was found guilty of hiding her son who was placed on the St. James Most Wanted list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,34,30],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-courthouse-business","tag-most-wanted","tag-western-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","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=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}