Trio Charged for Failing to Comply with Public Drinking and Social Distancing Regulations

Police are coming down hard on persons who do not observe quarantine measures in place.  Over the weekend, three persons were charged for public drinking in the south.  Police say that they men were drinking together outside of a business in Red Bank.  The men, according to police, were also not adhering to social distancing regulations and so they were each hit with that second charge.

Joseph Myvett

ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch

“On Saturday, sometime around eight p.m., while police were on patrol in Red Bank Village, they came across three persons outside a Chinese establishment who were drinking. Those persons were learnt to be twenty-eight-year-old Rene Parham; thirty-two-year-old Oscar Parham; and forty-two-year-old Juan Mancha Meh – all Guatemalan nationals. They were advised of the offence and taken into custody where they have since been arrested and charged for public drinking and failing to abide by the regulations in relation to social distancing.”