Chain snatcher claims police brutality

He is accused of robbing a minor but before he could complete his second attack on a group of three others in the King’s Park area, early on Independence Day, police on mobile patrol nabbed him in the act. But while twenty seven year old Lawrence Owen Longsworth is accused of robbery, he is levying his own claims of police brutality. Longsworth says that he suffered two fractured ribs, a broken jaw and a broken eye socket at the hands of the police. He also claims that prisoners in the Queen Street holding cell stabbed him several times. Longsworth needed hospitalization but that did not prevent him from being remanded to the Hattieville Prison. This is because he allegedly committed the crime with a handgun. In court today, he was slapped with six different charges, including one count of Robbery, three counts of Attempted Robbery, one count of Keeping an Unlicensed Firearm and one count of Keeping Unlicensed Ammunition. According to the robbery victim, a fourteen year old, he was walking on Baymen Avenue when a man held him up at gun point and stole his silver chain from around his neck. Police say when they apprehended Longsworth minutes later as he tried to rob three more minors, he had the chain in his possession. Longsworth was represented in court by Attorney, Phillip Palacio. He is due back in court on October twentieth.