A resident of Kingstown has been handed a concurrent five-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of trespassing with intent to commit theft, caught by law enforcement wearing the exact clothing captured on the victim’s security cameras.
The defendant, Jamel Miller, also known by the alias Shrek, entered his guilty plea before Senior Magistrate Tammika McKenzie at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court during a hearing held on May 27. Court documents outline two separate offenses that Miller committed on the private property of Shenice Williams, a 33-year-old therapist residing in McKies Hill. The first incident took place on April 29, and the second occurred nearly a month later on May 22, with Miller entering Williams’ fenced yard on both occasions with the intention of carrying out a theft.
Court records detail the long sequence of troubling events that led to Miller’s eventual capture. Starting in January of this year, Williams began noticing consistent damage to her vehicle, which she parked on her private driveway. The unexplained scratches quickly left her on edge, and the situation escalated when she heard unexpected knocking on her bedroom window one night. Following the incident, Williams reported feeling too unsafe to sleep in her own home.
Williams’ property is secured by a five-foot wire perimeter fence, two metal entry gates, and a network of closed-circuit security cameras that are linked to her mobile phone, allowing remote access to live and recorded footage. On the morning of April 29 at approximately 7 a.m., Williams received an alert from her camera system on her cell phone. Pulling up the recorded footage, she identified a slim, dark-skinned male wearing a red shirt, long trousers, and slippers who had entered her property at 2:45 a.m. that same day.
A second unauthorized entry was captured on May 22. That night, around 11 p.m., Williams was at a local bar in Richmond Hill when she received another security alert. Checking the remote footage, she spotted the same individual, again wearing a red shirt paired with white pants and carrying a red-and-black backpack, exiting her yard. She immediately contacted the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force to file a report. Patrol officer PC1090 Williams led a team of officers to the property shortly after the call, but the intruder had already left the area by the time they arrived.
The following morning at 8:30 a.m., Williams provided the recorded CCTV footage to investigating officers. The footage was distributed across local patrol units, and Miller was quickly identified as the person captured on camera. Law enforcement apprehended Miller on White Chapel Road in central Kingstown, transporting him to the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department for formal processing. After being informed of the charges against him and read his official police caution, Miller was interviewed in the presence of PC871 Lewis.
When officers showed Miller the CCTV footage, they immediately noticed he was wearing the exact same red shirt and white pants that he had on during the May 22 intrusion captured on camera. Miller did not deny his involvement, confessing that he was the person seen in the recordings and providing a voluntary written statement to investigators admitting his guilt.
In her final sentencing ruling, Senior Magistrate McKenzie ordered a five-month prison term for the first trespassing charge and a three-month term for the second offense. The sentences are set to run concurrently, meaning Miller will serve a total of five months behind bars beginning from the date of his conviction.