Serial Thief Goes Bananas … Convicted 8 Times in 5 years

Whenever Orville Stone sees bananas, he steals them. He has been convicted eight times in five years for stealing the fruit, says a report in Jamaica Star.
Stone, before being sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for praedial larceny, yesterday, told the Court that he couldn’t help himself whenever he saw bananas.
The man, who is otherwise called Tumpa of Bog Walk, St Catherine, told Parish Judge Jacqueline Wilcott that he has a drug problem which makes him a kleptomaniac.
Stone, whose words were reported in Jamaican patois but translated by NewsMakers, said: “I want to stop taking people’s things, Maam, especially the banana, but I just can’t stop although I try.”
He also told the St Catherine Parish Court: “All the while I just take a few bunch. I want to move from the area so I can stop it.”
The judge noted that Stone was convicted twice in 2015, and five times prior to that – all for stealing bananas.
“I am going to give you some time to think and I hope that you will be able to do something meaningful with your life as stealing cannot be tolerated,” Wilcott said before handing down the sentence.
The court heard that on June 24, 2016, Stone was caught on camera stealing several bunch of bananas from the Tulloch Farm in Bog Walk, St Catherine.
A report was made at the Bog Walk Police Station and following a probe, he was charged with praedial larceny by District Constable Evan Chambers.