Nassau, BAHAMAS- An ex-convict was sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty to threatening to kill a corrections officer during the coronavirus lockdown.
Anthony Forbes, 23, threatened to shoot Leslie Edgecombe in the head when he ran into him at a gas station on April 18.
Police manhandled Forbes when he resisted arrest. As a result, he sustained a broken shoulder.
Forbes pleaded guilty to charges of threats of death, disorderly behavior, resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer and violation of lockdown at his arraignment before Magistrate Samuel McKinney.
Edgecombe was at Porky’s Gas Station when he saw Forbes, who served nine months in prison for arson.
He told the magistrate that he just come out of prison two weeks ago.
While serving his time, Forbes alleged that Edgecombe and other officers beat him. As a result of the beating, Forbes received 12 stitches in his head, the court heard.
Forbes alleged that Edgecombe and the other officers were charged and placed on half-pay.
According to Forbes, he was walking to a shop when Edgecombe pulled up in a Jeep and said, “See how easy it is to blow y’all head off.”
Forbes said he told Edgecombe, “I could do the same thing to you.”
Forbes complained that police did not take him back to the hospital for the followup appointment for his shoulder. He also alleged that the officers at the police station refused him visitors and his medication.
Magistrate McKinney told Forbes he could go to prison for one year if he breaches probation.
McKinney fined him $400 or four months in prison for violating the lockdown. He has until April 24 to pay the fine.
