District Constable Gets 3 Years In Prison For Shooting
District Constable Michael Bernard was sentenced last week in the Westmoreland Circuit Court to three years in prison for a 2006 shooting incident which left a man injured. The complainant – Lloyd Clarke – was reportedly walking on Barclay Street, Savanna-la-Mar, when he was shot in the back and right elbow by one or other [...]
Policemen Arrested On Suspicion of Corruption
Two policemen were arrested recently, in separate incidents, on reasonable suspicion for breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act of 2000. Constable Jason Powell of the St. Andrew Central Police Division is alleged to have solicited the sum of J$100,000 from a man who was the subject of a blackmail complaint. Constable Powell alleged solicited the [...]
Controversial Police Shooting in Westmoreland
A 25-year-old taxi operator Rolando Crooks was shot and killed yesterday, reportedly by members of the Police’s Joint Task Force team who, acting on intelligence, went in search of Crooks at his home in Lennox Bigwoods. The police allege that they were greeted with gunfire at his residence, and that during a firefight Crooks was [...]
Cops Accused of Armed Robbery Released
Two policemen from the Westmoreland division were ordered released when their matter was mentioned in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Allegations in the matter are that both policemen (Damion Harrow and Donovan Ross), were detained as a result of information that linked them to an armed robbery in Westmoreland. The attorney representing the [...]