A 20-YEAR-old New York resident was fined $5,000 or 30 days for using indecent language when she appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.
Tarisha Alicius, the accused was charged with indecent language, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. She confessed to using the indecent language, but claimed she resisted arrest because the police had not read her rights. "In the state of New Jersey they can't arrest anyone without reading their rights," she told the court.
It is alleged that on July 29, the accused went to the Norman Manley Airport where she was about to board a flight to Newark, New York when the officer asked to check her travel documents. When the accused moved to the check counter to have her luggage checked, the officer asked to search her luggage. At this point the accused reportedly used indecent language.
Raise voice
The narcotic officer, who was doing the search, alleges that he told her she will be charged for using indecent language when the officer asked her to go with him to the office, she refused and allegedly started to raise her voice.
The officer told the court that he asked a female officer who was in uniform to take the woman to the office. The accused later compiled to the police demands and went to the office where she was charged. The accused claimed she was cursing to her friend and she did not know it was illegal to curse in Jamaica.
"I am sorry for you," Resident Magistrate Martin Gayle told the accused before sentencing her. She was fined for the indecent language and admonished and discharged for the other two charges.
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