KINGSTON, Jamaica — A Jamaican woman facing simple larceny charges over allegations she stole personal items from a man she spent the night with is set to stand trial in a parish court this coming June, after formally entering a plea of not guilty during a recent hearing.
According to prosecution details laid out in court, the complainant alleges that 34-year-old Horasha Green (note: age not provided in original, placeholder for narrative flow) stayed overnight with him at his residence, only for him to wake the next morning and discover his cell phone — which stored critical U.S. banking data — and additional personal belongings had gone missing. When the complainant confronted Green about the missing items, prosecutors say she initially acknowledged taking the property and agreed to meet him at a prearranged spot to return everything. When Green failed to show up for the agreed exchange, the complainant filed an official report with local law enforcement.
After police involvement, the cell phone and the second missing item were turned over to authorities at a local station, with prosecutors confirming Green repeated her admission of taking the items during a formal police interview under caution. That said, Green’s stance shifted dramatically when she appeared for a Tuesday hearing at Half Way Tree Parish Court, where she stood by her claim of complete innocence.
In her testimony to the court, Green argued the cell phone was voluntarily given to her as a gift by the complainant, and denied ever taking any other unauthorised items from him. Court officials offered the pair an opportunity to resolve the dispute through out-of-court mediation, an option the complainant immediately rejected. When sitting judge Peter Wilson pressed the complainant repeatedly to clarify his position — asking explicitly if he was set on pushing the case forward to secure a prison sentence for Green — the complainant remained firm in his refusal of mediation, repeating his claim that Green intentionally took his phone specifically to access the sensitive U.S. banking information stored on the device.
Throughout the hearing, Green never wavered in her insistence that she had committed no theft. In response to the proceedings, Judge Wilson issued several pre-trial conditions: he ordered Green to have no further contact with the complainant, mandated that law enforcement collect her fingerprints for official records, and extended her existing bail while adding regular reporting requirements for the period leading up to trial. The start of the trial on the simple larceny charge has officially been scheduled for June 22.