PHILIPSBURG–Former school bus driver David Dupont (33), who was found guilty of involvement in the armed robbery of a gas station on October 9, 2018, and who was sentenced by the Court to four years on April 25, 2019, was facing a dispossession claim on Wednesday.
The Court had found it legally and convincingly proven that he was the armed and masked man who entered the Texaco gas station on L.B. Scott Road adjacent to the Church Hill (Carrefour) roundabout around 10:00am, threatened personnel during the robbery and made away with US $28,295, consisting of the proceeds of Constitution Day, October 8, and the preceding weekend.
The robber took the entire long weekend’s profit, which was already counted and ready to be picked up by the Pan-American courier money transport service, as well as $500 from the pockets of an elderly pump attendant.
Investigations of the video-surveillance cameras at the gas station and those at the roundabout and a nearby pharmacy led the police to identify Dupont as the main suspect. He is currently held in detention at the Pointe Blanche prison.
The Prosecutor’s Office called on the Court to impose a dispossession claim for the entire amount that was stolen. “I did something wrong and I am being punished already. It is very hard,” Dupont said in his response.
Initially, the defendant stated that he had acted on his own while committing the robbery, but after some insistence by the Judge and the prosecutor, he confessed that he had committed the robbery with the aid of two other persons – one of them a scooter driver – with whom he had shared equally the proceeds of the crime. However, he did not provide the names of these two persons.
Attorney-at-law Sjamira Roseburg pleaded with the Judge to moderate the claim “to keep my client from having to commit another robbery in order for him to meet his financial obligations,” the lawyer stated.
The Court will give its decision November 6.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/91969-gas-station-robber-facing-hefty-dispossession-claim
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