Michael Foreman guilty of Suppression of Evidence

A nineteen year old man has been found guilty of Attempted Suppression of Evidence. Because Michael Foreman had no previous convictions, Magistrate Tracy Sosa showed him mercy today in Magistrates’ Court and Foreman was fined seven hundred dollars instead of serving a two year sentence. Magistrate Sosa gave him until December twelfth to pay the fine and if he defaults on payments, he will serve seven months in prison.

Delroy Menzies, a resident of Curl Thompson Street, had a charge of aggravated assault made against Foreman earlier this year. And on July twenty-first, 2008, Foreman met Menzies at a basketball court on Jane Usher Boulevard and told him to drop the case and he would be given any amount of money he desired. Foreman gave an unsworn statement in which he denied he attempted to bribe Menzies. Foreman said he had three witnesses to testify on his behalf but when summoned they did not appear in court. And while Foreman escaped prison time today, he was still taken back to the remand section of the prison for the first offence of aggravated assault against Menzies. On January seventh, 2008, Foreman allegedly fired shots at Menzies. Foreman is to go to trial for that offence on Thursday, November thirteenth.