An­na-Lisa Paul

For­mer Ex­press crime re­porter, Ak­ile Si­mon was re­mand­ed in cus­tody and de­nied bail for a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive time when he reap­peared in court yes­ter­day. Si­mon, 29, is be­fore the Tu­na­puna Mag­is­trates Court, joint­ly charged with gar­den­er Rod­ney Cave, 28, for arms and am­mu­ni­tion.

The two were ar­rest­ed on Ju­ly 8, at an apart­ment at the cor­ner of Meade and Hen­ry Streets, Tu­na­puna, af­ter po­lice ex­e­cut­ed a search war­rant. Si­mon was charged with pos­ses­sion of a .38 firearm and 13 rounds of .38 am­mu­ni­tion while Cave was charged for pos­ses­sion of five 12-gauge car­tridges.

When the men ap­peared be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate Gail Gon­za­les on Ju­ly 10, Si­mon was de­nied bail on the ba­sis that he had al­leged­ly com­mit­ted the of­fences while out on bail. His co-ac­cused was grant­ed $50,000 bail and has since been re­leased. Reap­pear­ing be­fore Mag­is­trate An­na Ryan in the Tu­na­puna First Mag­is­trates Court yes­ter­day, Si­mon was un­rep­re­sent­ed as his at­tor­ney, Kei­th Scot­land was ab­sent when the mat­ter was called.

A sec­ond bail ap­pli­ca­tion, by an at­tor­ney who held for Scot­land, was re­ject­ed on the ba­sis that Si­mon had sim­i­lar mat­ters pend­ing be­fore the court and had been re­leased on bail when he al­leged­ly com­mit­ted the of­fences in Tu­na­puna. Cave al­so reap­peared and was or­dered to con­tin­ue re­port­ing to the po­lice.

The two were charged by PC An­to­nio Per­reira of the Tu­na­puna po­lice. Si­mon will reap­pear on Au­gust 28 and Cave on Oc­to­ber 11. Si­mon will reap­pear in the Ari­ma Mag­is­trates Court on Au­gust 9, joint­ly charged with three oth­ers for a se­ries of of­fences re­lat­ing to a rob­bery at the K&A Liquor Mart in Arou­ca, on May 20.