MECHANIC TRIES TO BRIBE SARGE WITH $2,000

A26-year-old yesterday admitted to the court that he tried to bribe a cop with $2,000 during a traffic stop.

Andre Scott pleaded guilty to bribery when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish

Court before Senior Parish Judge Lori-Ann Cole-Montague.

It is alleged that Scott was stopped in traffic for driving without a licence and other traffic offences. The court heard that he offered a sergeant $2,000 to avoid prosecution.

“I would love to hear your explanation as to why you want to bribe a police officer. Tell me, Sir, I’m all ears,” the judge said.

“I’m an auto mechanic and I was driving a motorcycle. He asked me why I was riding without a licence and I was begging him a chance. I never want him to take the bike away, so that’s the reason,” Scott said. He added that his licence expired in April and he was only test driving the

motorcycle.

“The appropriate sentence of the offence is for you to pay a fine but like how you are just 26, I will bear that in mind. I don’t view it as just 26. You are a grown man, you know better and a lot of the accidents that we have and persons can’t get no compensation is because of careless, reckless behaviour like that. There are consequences for every action,” Cole-Montague stressed. Scott was ordered to pay a fine of $40,000 or face six months’ imprisonment. He was given two weeks’ extension to pay the fine, and he is his own surety. He is to return to the Corporate Area Traffic Court on July 23 to answer to his traffic offences.