Ronaldo Hewlett to undergo drug rehab
The young Hewlett is before the courts on a burglary charge. He is accused of stealing $10, a Ginger Ale and a Ginger Beer.
Ms Richards, after noting the defendant’s serious drug addiction and his willingness to access rehabilitation, collaborated with Peebles Hospital via Dr June Samuels to have Hewlett attend the facility.
The Senior Magistrate said Her Majesty's Prisons would be given directive to have Hewlett taken to the hospital from Monday March 30, 2015 where he will remain a resident for three weeks.
Hewlett will then have to return to court on April 21, 2015 for progress report and at that time it will be decided whether he is fit to be enrolled in the Safe Haven Transitional Centre to prepare him for re-integration into society.
"Hopefully you will do well with that," Ms Richards encouraged Hewlett.
‘Safe Haven makes more sense’
After seeking clarification about the safe Haven, Hewlett was told that it is a centre that was once known as the Sandy Lane Centre but is now restructured and with new owners. Hewlett responded, "That makes more sense than what they were doing there previously."
When he made a court appearance on Friday March 20, 2015 Hewlett was informed of the valiant efforts being made to have him get the desired rehabilitation process going. As he was officially unrepresented, Attorney at Law Mr Richard Rowe indicated to the court that he would make voluntarily interventions on his behalf.
Given a chance
Magistrate Richards had said she was making interventions to give Hewlett a chance at not wasting his young life and ending up in a situation where he would have been back and forth in the courts.
At that time, consideration was also being given to the possibilities of him being enrolled into a Christian rehabilitation institution in the USA for a period of one year.
Told by Ms Richards that Hewlett was a man that was very intelligent and uses a lot of “big words”, Mr Rowe indicated that he was aware of this knowledge as he would have had cause to interact with him before.
Hewlett’s level of intelligence was displayed every time he appeared in court, asking intelligent questions and in details, and speaking fluently as he led his own defense.
The defendant had always expressed the desire to undergo drug rehabilitation.
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22 Responses to “Ronaldo Hewlett to undergo drug rehab”
This guy ain't like Merlin and Sonnel and the other young drug addled youth who want to do nothing and beg. This guy was mad intelligent before he got caught up in this muck and he still is.
However he still got rough spots that shouldn't exclude him from punishment despite who his f>>>r is. This dude can get violent. Also, he st^^^^g to eat. Feed him and rehabilitate him as best as you can....and hopefully he sticks with it since he been in and out a lot of 'em it seems. Get well Rinaldo, get well.
I too, went to school with Sonnel. He was dressed well in school and he wasn't a dunce either...but he dropped out. He started to mess with drugs and at this point in his life he CHOOSES to be a waste. He's been given jobs....don't want to work. He goes and assaults tourists when he wants to go back to Jail. He's been offered help and stayed over at the Sandy Lane centre for a day and a half, leaving DIRECTLY after he clean the pot and said he wasn't coming back because he wanted to drink and smoke as he felt.
Sonnel got his good head you know..but it look like he trying to be anything but a waste? Honestly, answer that one.
There are many more youths out there who are in this situation, but like much else, our community turns a blind eye. For how long have we known that the Ghetto is a supermarket for retail drugs (and goodness knows what else)? Yet, this "business" continues to thrive, and openly! Is it that this "business" has become the true third pillar of the economy? Is it that to address the source of the trade would necessarily mean mashing a few corns and exposing the gol' teeth of Bo-hog, a definite 'no-no'? Whatever the reason, we cannot build a first-class mortar and brick society when the social infrastructure is crumbling.