MAN BOX HIM BABY MOTHER A POLICE STATION

A St Catherine man who claimed that he loved his ‘babymother’ and she loved him was placed before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last week after he slapped her in the face inside a police station, when he was brought there for running away with their one-year-old child following a dispute over a phone call.

The 29-year-old painter and salesman, Marvin Brown, of Linstead, St Catherine, had also threatened the mother of his child, saying: “ Before she get back, the baby blood haffi run and mi ago kill har.”

Following the incident, which unfolded on June 9, Brown was arrested and charged with assault occasioning bodily harm, threat and disorderly conduct.

According to the complainant’s report, they were both at her home in Papine, St Andrew, when her phone rang, but she did not answer the call. Brown asked her who it was and she told him that it was her “babyfather” and it caused an argument.

The complainant said that during the dispute Brown grabbed their one-year-old son and jumped a wall and left with the child without her knowledge.

She reported the matter to the police. Brown was subsequently held and escorted to the station, and while there he threatened to kill the complainant and slapped her in the face, which caused it to swell.

But on Friday when he appeared he gave a slightly different story.

“It was like this: she tell mi to stay home and she lef and come back, and mi an her a smoke an a easy. Har phone ring and she guh ’round a har granny room an’ nuh return,” Brown said.

In continuing, he said that he went to sleep later that night and in the morning she woke him up and they had a dispute, which resulted in him taking their child and hitting her.

But Brown told the court: “She love mi and mi love har. She jealous ova mi, she waa mi by har side all the time, but mi affi hustle.”

The judge then asked the complainant what she wanted her to do with Brown.

“Your Honour, him can gwaan.mi just want him stay a distance from me,” she replied.

“You hear him say you want him under yuh armpit?” Judge Pusey asked the complainant.

Brown interjected saying: “She jus’ a say dat; later a she dat a call me phone.”

The judge then enquired from the complainant again what she wanted and she said, “I am sacred of him; I just want him to keep him distance, at least until I get over this.”

“Him hand very nimble, him love to lick, him naa stop until him hand dem chop off,” she added

Brown in his defence quickly said: “ She love lick to.”

“It’s not about me, how you know what I love to do?” she asked Brown.

The judge then intervened and after scolding both of them for acting like children warned Brown to honour the complainant’s wish and avoid her.

As it relates to the other two charges, Brown pleaded guilty to both while explaining that he loved his son and made the threat out of anger and did not mean anything by it. He also told the court that he behaved boisterously inside the police station because the complainant was talking about “his s*x life”.

He was then ordered to pay $2,000 or serve 30 days in jail for disorderly conduct and $1,000 or 10 days for the threat.

Mother cries after son is remanded

A woman who is charged along with her conductor son for reportedly wounding another conductor was reduced to tears after her son’s bail application was postponed and he was remanded.

Sybil Tucker-Bartley, 51, of Barbican Road in Kingston sat on the prisoner’s bench in tears at the end of court on Friday after her son was remanded. Her son, Okejidi Quarry, who was in the prisoners’ holding area, tried to comfort her by saying he will be back on Wednesday, but she told him: “Mi caa bada wid de stress.”

The accused woman is charged with unlawful wounding while her 31-year-old son of Denver Crescent, Kingston, is charged with wounding with intent.

The court heard that on February 3, about 10:30 am, the complainant and Quarry were in Papine when they had a dispute over passengers going into their respective buses. Following the dispute, the complainant left and went to Cross Roads when Quarry and several other men went into a fast food outlet and beat him all over his body.

Further reports said that Quarry stabbed the complainant on the right side of his chest while his mother cut the complainant on his hand.

The complainant was taken to the Kingston Public Hospital where he was admitted for seven days in serious condition and underwent surgery.

The two accused were subsequently arrested and charged.

Quarry, when cautioned, reportedly told the police: “Anuh mi stab him, a whole heap a man did deh deh.” His mother reportedly told the police: “Officer is a man inna hoodie stab Chris’.”

On Friday when both appeared in court, Judge Pusey appeared minded to offer Quarry bail, but after hearing the allegations enquired about his lawyer.

Tucker-Bartley then told her that attorney-at-law Peter Champagnie was representing her son; however, the attorney was not present. as a result she asked for time to make contact with the attorney. A representative for the lawyer then returned and told the court that the bail application will be made on Wednesday.

Quarry was then remanded until Wednesday while his mother’s bail was extended.

Driver implicated in million-dollar fraud

A Kingston driver accused of defrauding a cosmetic company out of approximately $1.2 million after he reportedly collected goods that were paid for by fraudulent cheques was offered $250,000 bail.

Roydell Smith, 63, of Chalmer’s Avenue, Kingston, was arrested and charged with obtaining goods by forged documents and conspiracy to defraud.

According to allegations, on May 25 a woman who gave her name as “Suzan Chung”, and purported to be the owner of a wholesale, reportedly contacted Ashley Personal Care Company and enquired about diapers and ordered 110 cases of the product costing $691,200. The woman then reportedly enquired if she could pay for the order by cheque and was told that she could do so. It was reportedly agreed that she would lodge the cheque to the company’s account. Smith and another man reportedly drove to the company later that day and collected the goods.

Two days later the woman reportedly called back and made another order valued at $490, 800 and the goods were reportedly picked up by Smith and his colleague.

Further reports said that on the following day the woman called back and placed another order for goods, including lotions and wipes, valued $864,000. The owner of the company reportedly became suspicious and checked his account and saw that the cheque for the order had been dishonoured by the bank. He reportedly took the woman’s order and called the police, but the driver did not show up.

The police later carried out an investigation and arrested Smith and the other man. However, the man , after he was questioned, was released, while Smith was charged and when cautioned he made no comment.

On Wednesday when he appeared in court, his lawyer Charles Campbell told the court that his plea was not guilty and made a successful bail application.

Smith was offered bail on condition that he is to report to the Half-Way-Tree Police Station on Wednesdays and return to court on July 5.