Cutlass threat

When Jamar Kemar Waldron saw Redman on Saturday he shouted: “You owe me money. I buy dope for you and was looking for you ever since. I gone chop you today.”

Prosecutor Robert Jones said Waldron, of Lot No 3 Hannahs Valley, Christ Church removed a cutlass from his bag when he made the utterances.

However, the cutlass dropped and was picked up by a bystander. That did not stop the self-employed man from picking up a “rock” and throwing it at Redman causing those in the vicinity to scream and scatter.

Police were called in and Waldron was arrested and charged.

Today, before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant, the accused readily admitted to the charges of causing a disturbance at Jubilee Gardens on August 29 and having an offensive weapon namely a cutlass in a public place without reasonable excuse.

He also told the court what he had done even as he pleaded for leniency.

“I pulled my hard earn money from my pocket and buy drugs for him. I don’t tell lies. I work hard for that little dollar. I had a sword with me and took it out . . . . I say the words I gone chop you, I don’t tell lies. I then drop the sword on the ground and the bread man bore me now with a broomstick and I pick up a stone and throw it ma’am.

“I don’t get in trouble anymore. I begging for a fine, a bond, not prison. I was on my job site. I begging for leniency,” Waldron pleaded.

However, the magistrate ruled that Waldrond would spend six months in prison for the weapon on the grounds that he not only put himself but the general public in danger as a result of his actions.

“Learn to behave yourself,” Cuffy-Sargeant said to the convicted man who is known to the court.

Waldron was also sentenced to one month in prison for causing the disturbance which will run concurrently.