POLICE HAVE DISMISSED reports that one of their colleagues had his gun snatched at a funeral on Wednesday.
Instead, they said, a 24-year-old woman was arrested and charged with obstructing and resisting a policeman and using insulting and threatening words to lawmen after things got out of hand at the burial of Jamar Grazette, a shooting victim.
Akiba Ashley Bruce, of #11 Stanton Path, Bagatelle Gardens, St Thomas appeared in the Holetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday where she pleaded guilty to the offences of resisting and using threatening words. However, she denied obstructing or using insulting language towards the officers.
Acting Station Sergeant Roland Cobbler, the police public relations officer, said the police had been carrying out crowd control at the funeral of Grazette, who was shot while in a parked car at Orange Hill, St James on August 19. The mechanic, 25, died at the scene and on Wednesday a huge crowd was at the graveside when things got heated and police intervened.
Videos making the round on social scene showed a large crowd of people moving to and fro in a confused state at the funeral.
Station Sergeant Cobbler alleged that when police had reason to speak to a man Bruce intervened and it was from there the charges originated.
Bruce was granted bail $3 000 bail with one surety to re-appear on December 2 to be sentenced for the two offences. (AC)
