NASSAU-A landlord threatened a tenant who remained on his premises, despite getting an eviction notice last month.
Philip “Ducky” Carey, 54, told Patrice Mackey on May 26 that he would get her out of his apartment at Butler Street, Nassau Village “by all means necessary.”
Carey then told her that he “would chop her with a cutlass and mince her like crawfish.”
Prosecutors initially alleged that Carey brandished a cutlass when he made the threat.
However, the prosecutor Sergeant Lincoln McKenzie withdrew the charge of assault with a dangerous instrument.
Carey pleaded guilty to making the threat of harm at his arraignment before Deputy Chief Magistrate Andrew Forbes. He was not represented by a lawyer.
He told the court that his wife gave Mackey notice to vacate on April 8.
Carey, who lives on the same property, said he’d had other run-ins with his tenant.
Forbes ordered Carey to pay a $400 fine or three months in prison.
The magistrate told Carey that there were legal means to remove an unwanted tenant.
“Why haven’t you made any other attempts to remove the tenant legally from your premises, as opposed to resorting to threats?”
However, new civil trials are suspended during the coronavirus pandemic.
As a result, the courts are only hearing emergency evictions.
