MANY OF US would have watched The Untouchables, the movie about how notorious mobster Al Capone was brought down. We should remember the fight over the accountant and his book of records and how it was eventually used in evidence against Capone.
As notorious a murderer as he reputedly was, in real life and the movie, Capone was sentenced for the relatively minor crime of tax evasion.
It may not have been as spectaular as proving that he bashed in someone's head with a baseball bat, but it was certainly good enough to get him put behind bars.
It is this principle of the 'lesser charge' which has been applied in the case that was reported on in THE STAR recently. A resident of Ocean Towers in downtown Kingston has been ordered not to keep anymore house parties, at least for the next two weeks. It was not the noise from the parties, though, which really caused the problems.
As the court documents state, at the parties "only young males, some of them street boys ... would be in attendance."
There is, of course, mention of ganja smoking and loud music, but it is the lots of young men with this male tenant which is the problem. However, since there is no way that he can be charged with what the complainants really suspect and want to charge him with, they have settled for the lesser charge.
Of course, as those other notorious all-male house parties immediately come to mind, then naturally thoughts of the probability of a bigger charge arise.
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