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Traffic cop allegedly caught with bribe money granted bail -arrest warrant issued for colleague
Charged: Chris Brown
A former traffic rank who was allegedly caught with money that he accepted from a truck driver employee to drop a charge against him was yesterday slapped with a bribery charge.
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Brown, of La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
He denied the charge, which stated that on December 7, last, at Ruimveldt Police Station, while being an agent of the State, he along with Officer Mark Collins corruptly obtained from Iyana Hutson, the sum of $10,000, as an inducement or reward for foregoing to charge Dwayne Dover with a traffic offence.
The Chief Magistrate issued an arrest warrant for Collins who failed to show up in court for the charge to be read to him.
Police Prosecutor, Gordon Mansfield, had no objection to bail being granted to Brown; hence, he was released on $5,000 bail and instructed to make his next court appearance on August 6.
According to information, the two traffic ranks were lured into a sting operation after the employee recorded the serial numbers on the monies and handed the information over to a police sergeant.
It is alleged that a 44-year-old contractor’s supervisor was driving a Canter truck in the vicinity of Industrial Site, Ruimveldt when he was stopped by the defendants for an alleged traffic violation.
Brown reportedly then solicited $15,000 to forgo the charge. The driver contacted his supervisor who wrote down the serial numbers of some bills. He then notified a police sergeant at the Ruimveldt Police Station of the incident and gave him the serial numbers.
The contractor then went to the Ruimveldt Police Station where he handed over $10,000 to the defendant, who allegedly gave another traffic rank the cash.
The two ranks were later searched and police retrieved the cash, with the corresponding serial numbers, in the pockets of one of the culprits.
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