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Volume: 123 No. 16, Friday, December 12, 2025
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BAHAMIAN FUGITIVE ARRESTED IN FLORIDA
Bowe will face US court system for grand theft auto and evading police before being handed over to local authorities By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net A BAHAMIAN fugitive who escaped from custody at the Carmichael Road Police Station was captured in Florida after a highspeed chase and will be handed over to Bahamian authorities once he has been dealt with by the United States justice system.
Suspected armed robber Tomal Bowe, 33, was arrested in St Johns County, Florida, following a pursuit that began when he allegedly fled a routine traffic stop. Reports in Florida said Bowe has been charged with felony fleeing and eluding, grand theft auto, resisting without violence, possession of marijuana under 20 grams, and additional FUGITIVE - SEE PAGE THREE
Tomal Bowe pictured at time of arrest in Florida.
‘JAIDO WORLD’ GRANTED BAIL ON ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGES By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net WELL-known TikTok personality Elias Fritz has been granted bail by the Supreme Court on attempted murder and armed robbery charges. Fritz, 19, received $50,000 bail earlier this week from Senior Justice Cheryl Grant
300 FAMILIES TO BENEFIT FROM $500K US HURRICANE GRANT
Thompson after more than a month of delays. He must be fitted with an electronic monitoring device, observe a nightly residential curfew and sign in daily at his local police station. He will be released once the bail is formally signed. Fritz — who has more than 300,000 TikTok TIKTOKER - SEE PAGE THREE
TIKTOK PERSONALITY ELIA FRITZ
INSPECTOR TESTIFIES TO FINDING INMATE UNRESPONSIVE IN CELL
NEWLY SWORN-IN US Ambassador Herschel Walker presented a donation of $500,000 to the Bahamas Red Cross for the benefit of families in the Southern Bahamas that were affected by Hurricane Melissa.
By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net
By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net
A BAHAMAS Department of Correctional Services inspector testified yesterday that he found an inmate unresponsive in his cell in 2021, as the murder trial of Diallo Williamson continued before Justice Jeannine Weech-Gomez. Williamson is accused
of causing the death of 29-year-old inmate Mikhail Miller at BDCS on November 1, 2021. Inspector Denzil Beneby, who was the principal officer on F Block on the day in question, said he had instructed officers to remove slop buckets from cells when he was alerted to an incident in cell F2. When
THREE hundred families in the Southern Bahamas whose homes were damaged when Huricane Melissa tore across the islands at the end of October will benefit from a $500,000 grant to the Bahamas Red Cross from
PRISON - SEE PAGE FIVE
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the United States. Newly sworn-in US Ambassador Herschel Walker presented the symbolic cheque during his first major public engagement, seen as a reaffirmation of the “strong and enduring” partnership between the two countries. Officials say the BENEFIT - SEE PAGE TWO