Another police officer before the courts

On February twenty-third of this year, police officer Derrick Gideon and two others were charged with the kidnapping of San Pedro resident, Juan Perez. Gideon, a police officer, was charged along with Juan Cus and BDF Private, Justin Casimiro. This morning Gideon appeared before Justice Michelle Arana to apply for bail on the grounds that he has no previous conviction. The DPP’s representative, Christelle Wilson, did not oppose to bail which was set at twelve thousand dollars on the condition that he must appear before the San Pedro Magistrate’s Court and the Sand Hill Police station at set dates and that he does not interfere with the witnesses. Perez reported to police that on February twenty-first, he was sleeping on a boat when the three men, dressed as civilians, told him he was wanted at the police station. He got on their golf cart but soon realized he was not being taken to the station so he fled. But before he did so, Perez claimed the men robbed him of six hundred and fifty dollars.  Up until this evening, Gideon had not yet met bail.