Two plead guilty to causing disturbance in van stand

Two of the four people arrested and charged for fighting in the Constitution River Terminal earlier this week pleaded guilty when they appeared in the District ‘A’ Traffic Court before Magistrate Alison Burke on Thursday.

Jarad Andre Brathwaite, 27, of Brereton Village, St Philip and Lakicia Alicia Archer, 26, of Ashbury Land, St George, admitted to causing a disturbance in the van stand on October 30, 2023.

A video of the incident has since gone viral on social media.

Brathwaite, who has two previous convictions, was placed on a bond to keep the peace for six months. If he breaches the bond, he will have to pay $1 000 immediately or face three months in Dodds prison.

Archer was reprimanded and discharged.

Attorney Kelly-Ann Blackman represented the two.

Meanwhile, 58-year-old Ronald Gilbert Lavine of 3rd Avenue Greaves Land, Black Rock, St Michael and 29-year-old Napthali Nathaniel Ray Greenidge of Berry Hill, Merricks, St Philip, pleaded not guilty to the offence and were each granted $2 000 bail.

Greenidge also denied assaulting Lavine, occasioning him actual bodily harm, and was granted $4 000 bail on that charge.

Lavine and Greenidge return to court on March 20, 2024.