FAMED SELECTOR DANE Johnson, also known as Fire Links, was, on Wednesday, permitted to travel after his attorney Tom Tavares-Finson made an application for his passport to be returned.
Johnson is before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court to answer to charges of operating a sound system beyond 12:30 a.m., operating a sound system audible beyond 100 yards, three counts of assaulting a constable, escaping custody, two counts of resisting arrest, abusive language, indecent language and disorderly conduct.
On Wednesday, Johnson's attorney made an application before Resident Magistrate Georgiana Frazer to have the accused man's passport returned. Tavares-Finson said Johnson needed the passport because of his job. He said the accused would return to the island in time for his matter to be mentioned again.
RM Frazer then upheld the request allowing Johnson to travel but ordered the passport to be returned to the court by July 11, the next time the matter will be mentioned.
Allegations are that on May 23, Constables Tamara Dias and Vernon Carter of the Half-Way Tree Police Station, were patrolling the St. Andrew Central Division when, at approximately 2:30 a.m., they received a radio message of a complaint of loud noise in the vicinity of Molynes and Cassia Park roads.
LOUD MUSIC
They proceeded to the location, along with two other officers ,where they heard loud music playing in the distance.
The sound eventually led them to an open area, 50A Molynes Road, where they saw a party with approximately 200 people.
A man, who later identified himself as Ken Smith and was operating the sound system turned off the music at the request of the police and produced a permit for the event.
However, it stated that it should have ended at 12:30 a.m. The officer instructed him not to turn the music on again, he agreed, and the police left the location.
The police visited the location two additional times the same morning. At approximately 3:30 a.m. the operators were told to turn off the music and warned that the equipment could be seized.
Later, at 4:30 a.m. they visited the premises for a third time where they saw Smith, Fire Links, and a third man.
Constable Carter instructed them to turn off the music and told them they would be arrested, charged, and the equipment seized because they were playing music that could be heard beyond 100 yards and beyond the designated time.
Allegations are that Johnson refused and when Constable Carter attempted to take him and the other men to the station he grabbed onto the officer's vest and a struggle ensued. Johnson allegedly shouted obscenities at the officer and threatened him. Constable Dias held onto him and told him to co-operate but it is alleged that he tried to free himself of their grasp.
The crowd got involved and it is said that Johnson eventually got free and went towards Dias and pushed her in the chest. He is said to have jumped over a wall at the back of the premises. The police called for additional backup to help disperse the crowd and their equipment was seized and taken to the Half Way Tree Police Station.
On May 25 at approximately 12:15 p.m. Constable Dias received information that Johnson was at the Commissary area of the Half Way Tree Police Station and sought the assistance of other officers and he was arrested and escorted to the lock up.
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