Tag: assaulting police
Cops assaulted during GT arrest
(CNS): Two Royal Cayman Island Police Service officers ended up in hospital Monday after they arrested a 19-year-old man who then became verbally and physically aggressive towards the officers and resisted arrest. During the struggle a watch that one of the officers was wearing was damaged and both officers received non-life-threatening-injuries. The police officers were […]
Badly injured cop sues RCIPS bosses
(CNS): A police officer who sustained a fractured skull while on duty and who is still struggling with a catalog of mental and physical health problems six years later is suing the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service, as he says they were negligent in their failure to provide him with protective headgear. Police Constable Fitzroy […]
GT man charged with a dozen offences
(CNS): A 21-year-old man from George Town, who allegedly began his crime spree in October, was charged on Monday with a total of twelve offences, including arson and assaulting a police officer. Police said in a press release that he had been charged with two counts of causing fear or provocation of violence in relation to […]
WB woman detained after fight with police
(CNS): The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service says they arrested a 30 year old West Bay woman early Sunday morning outside a George Town bar after she assaulted officers who had been called out to investigate a report of an altercation in the parking lot of Cotton Club on Shedden Road. The police arrived at around 2:30am […]
Appeal court jails free man in cop assault case
(CNS): Seth O’Neil Watler broke down in court Wednesday and had to be assisted down the stairs to the cells after he was jailed by the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal when the panel overturned a ten-month suspended sentence and replaced it with a year in prison. Watler pleaded guilty last October to assaulting a senior […]
Police pepper spray drunk women during arrest
(CNS): Police said that they used pepper spray to subdue two women on Saturday night who caused a drunken disturbance outside a West Bay bar. Officers were called to Kelly’s Bar on Birch Tree Hill Road around midnight, where they found a 22-year-old-woman from the district shouting expletives and fighting. Police said she was banging on […]
Support cop arrested after violent domestic assault
(CNS): A 50-year-old auxiliary constable with the RCIPS was arrested in the early hours of Friday morning following a domestic disturbance at a residence in the Prospect area of George Town, where he also assaulted his colleagues. Police said he has been suspended from duty but has been bailed due to medical reasons. The man […]
BT man avoids jail after punching senior cop
(CNS): A local man from Bodden Town avoided jail time Wednesday, after a judge suspended the ten-month sentence he was given for assaulting a senior police officer at the scene of a traffic collision in October. Seth Watler (25) wept openly as Justice Marlene Carter said she was giving him a chance because of his […]
Possession, importation charges dropped in drug case
(CNS): The court ruled Wednesday that Troy Pearson (35), who is on trial on drug and assault charges, had no case to answer on possession of more than 100lbs of ganja with intent to supply and importation of ganja. The charges stemmed from a drug raid in May at a house in Prospect, in which […]
Local men charged following police assault
(CNS): Two local men have been charged in connection with the assault of a senior police officer at the weekend. Seth Watler (25) was charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent and Jason Wood (23) with threatening to cause serious harm and obstructing a police officer in the lawful execution of his duties. Both men, […]
10 years for blinding police officer in one eye
(CNS): Garfield Silburn Jr (21) has been handed a ten-year sentence for assaulting two police officers, one of whom suffered a detached retina and is now blind in one eye. The officer underwent eye surgery after the attack and is awaiting an operation that may restore his sight. Silburn pleaded guilty last month to the […]
