Kenaz Hazel sentenced to 5 years @ HMP for unlicensed gun
Kenaz Hazel was sentenced on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, by Magistrate Christilyn Benjamin following his re-appearance before the court.
The magistrate, in sentencing the youngster, said she took into consideration his early guilty plea and his no previous convictions in this jurisdiction.
Circumstances surrounding offence
According to Lyn Daley, prosecutor from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Hazel was caught with a black handgun concealed inside a grey sweater, thirteen 40-millimetre rounds of live ammunition in the magazine, $500, and some articles of clothing inside a dark backpack.
On the day in question, October 4, 2020, officers from the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) were conducting mobile patrol on Beef Island.
While there they spotted the defendant, dressed in dark clothing, exiting from a vehicle and making a beeline to the awaiting ferry in the area carrying a bag.
The officers then proceeded to follow the defendant and later conducted multiple searches during which time the items were found.
Daley said the defendant remarked that he was given the bag by someone to deliver on Virgin Gorda and he didn’t know anything.
He was escorted to the Road Town Police Station for a more thorough search and a tally of the money in his possession.
However, he later said in court that he had the gun for his protection.
Hazel was unrepresented during the criminal proceedings.
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26 Responses to “Kenaz Hazel sentenced to 5 years @ HMP for unlicensed gun”
As a mother, my heart goes out to your mom. I feel her pain.
What is going on with all these young men getting into trouble? Something is not right.
As for the churches in this territory, you must be joking. It has been decades since they stood for anything positive in our community. Churches have become a haven for mentally and spiritually ill people, pretending otherwise, who contaminate unprotected young people in our community. The prosperity gospel precludes them from actually being an instrument of guidance and correction.
I hope this helps!
The generalization was possible because in our society it is no longer an anomaly to see a young man with a gun, a young man in with a gun in an actual gun fight and people robbing and coming to the point of death because of a gun, it has become the norm.
When a thing is repeatedly done, sweepingly so, to borrow your word, it becomes the norm. The facts are apparent, it is young men out there doing these things, it is not old men.
You feel very affronted by the comment, because you know its true. As mothers, as a society, we no longer hold our young men accountable for their actions, we don't enforce our standards and tell them the consequences of not upholding them is that they will be discipline accordingly and not rewarded with non-action for the bad behaviour, therein telling them its ok to carry on and in fact to escalate the bad behaviour because there are no consequences.
We have stopped raising MEN. We revere boy children and we treat them a certain way, we cuddle them but we raise girl children to be fierce and independent, but where are the men to marry them, protect them and help them build healthy families, where mothers are not there to tell their psuedo-man-child that she can do for him better than his wife?
We are also the village and some mothers tell the village not to say anything to their child. We cuss the village in front the child and teach them disrespect for all the parts of the village that were responsible for helping to raise them. And when the child turns on the village, we hide in shame. We started down a slippery slope with that one and now we are reaping the harvest of that wrong thinking.
You can go take several seats yourself!
I've read where the jack*** said he was raised by his mother. Many young boys were raised by single mothers and has came out to be productive citizens in the community. His mother did her best in raising these boys, but they chose to follow the masses( and turned themselves into a&&3$. He is a grown man and his mother is not responsible for his decisions. He has made his bed so let him lay in it.
Money talk and bull sh**t walk
Sounds to me he is one of the men who are commuting the robberies of Virgin Gorda. Do a thorough interrogation on him.