Magistrates' Court on Dogs Act charges incorrectly identified Jennifer Dwinnell as one of the principles in the case. It is in fact her tenant, Felicity Cole, whose dog is alleged to have been attacked by the Horton dog.

Drunk driver nearly hit Police car An impaired driver almost hit a Police car head-on while travelling at "high speed'', Magistrates' Court heard.

Police, who pursued Harold Simons after the near miss, reached speeds of 110 kph, said Crown counsel Charmaine Smith.

Simons said he had drunk three vodkas on December 15 before he drove along North Shore Road in his Toyota Corolla.

Ms Smith said at a sharp bend, Simons car crossed the centre line and almost smashed into an on-coming Police car.

The patrol car turned around and pursued Simons, 34, before he stopped his car.

When he got out of the car, Simons, of Bobs Valley Lane, Sandys Parish, was unsteady on his feet, his speech was slurred, and he smelled of alcohol. He leaned against his car to steady himself, Ms Smith said.

A breath test showed Simons had 184 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 milligrams in 100 millilitres of blood.

When he was asked if he had been drinking, Simons said he had had about three vodkas.

Senior Magistrate Will Francis fined Simons, who pleaded guilty to driving while impaired, $450 and banned him from driving all motor vehicles for a year.

SECOND PERSON CHARGED OVER ATTACK ON TOURIST CTS Second person charged over attack on tourist A second person has been charged in connection with a brutal attack on a tourist in Sandys Parish last autumn.

The Pembroke juvenile, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is the co-accused with 16-year-old Russell Bill Gibbons in the assault of American tourist Alan DelRay with intent to commit robbery on November 10.

Released on $1,000 bail with one surety, the boy has been ordered to return to Juvenile Court on February 16.

Police prosecutor Insp. Peter Giles asked for the adjournment to allow time for consultation on the charges.

The Public Prosecutions Office -- via a fiat -- ordered Gibbons' case directly to the Supreme Court, an option it has in severe cases.

The maximum penalty in Magistrates' Court for the offences is one year.

Supreme Court judges have greater sentencing penalties.

The accomplice is a juvenile -- under age 16 -- and can only face indictable charges in cases of murder.

But the boy pleaded guilty to the alternative charge of assaulting Mr. DelRay, forcing the delay.

Juvenile Court Magistrate Carlisle Greaves said: "The facts aren't going to change. You must decide if it really is necessary for a trial down here.'' He added: "The sentence is the same, if he pleads to one or the other, after all.'' Gibbons, of Elliot Street, Pembroke, is free on bail, awaiting to be arraigned in the Supreme Court.

HOMELESS WOMAN BECAME VIOLENT AFTER TAXI RIDE CTS Homeless woman became violent after taxi ride Sentencing was delayed in the case of a homeless woman who stiffed a taxi driver and violently resisted arrest when he drove her to a Police station.

Nakisha Janika-Tnee Burgess, 22, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty before Senior Magistrate Will Francis to incurring a debt and obtaining credit from taxi driver Lloyd Smart at 3.16 a.m. on Friday morning.

Crown counsel Charmaine Smith told Mr. Francis that Mr. Smart drove into Somerset Police Station in taxi T1141, telling officers he had a passenger who was sound asleep.

Police tried to rouse Burgess for "some time'' and, once they succeeded, noticed she smelled strongly of intoxicants.

She refused to give her name and her destination.

Mrs. Smith said Burgess told the officers: "Just take me home. I'll pay you when I get there. I can pay him. I just don't want you around.'' Police arrested her on charges she obtained credit by fraud and she became violent.

"You can't arrest me! I ain't done nothing wrong,'' Burgess told Police.

"Let me go! I ain't done nothing.'' Mrs. Smith said Burgess swung her arms violently around, hitting one officer in the chest and later kicked a female officer in her shin, before finally being forcibly restrained.

Mr. Francis remanded Burgess into custody after hearing she had recently been given a conditional discharge for using threatening behaviour and violently resisting arrest .

Burgess told Mr. Francis: "All I could say is I'm truly sorry and if there is anything I could say to not go to jail, I'll do it.'' Mr. Francis, however, was unmoved, and remanded her into custody for the preparation of a social inquiry report. She will be sentenced on March 6.

TEENAGE GIRL SEEKS JOB TO PAY SPEEDING FINE CTS Teenage girl seeks job to pay speeding fine A 13-year-old girl will have to find some after school work after being fined $200 for speeding and riding while under age.

The Sandys Parish girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will be banned from riding all cycles until her 18th birthday and the fine must be paid by the end of February.

Her father, who was in court with her, said he would redouble efforts to find her a job, and while he would pay the fine immediately, she would eventually pay him back.

The girl is reportedly on the waiting list of several supermarkets for a grocery packing job. But her father insisted she would take whatever money she had and pay towards the fine. She pulled $10 from her school clothes.

Juvenile Court Magistrate Carlisle Greaves heard that a Police radar check caught the girl -- with a pillion passenger -- riding at 56 kph on North Shore Road, Hamilton Parish on January 9.

Police prosecutor Insp. Peter Giles said when an officer approached to give the girl a ticket, he was suspicious of her age. Subsequent checks proved the suspicion correct.

GOVT. MP'S WIFE DENIES ALLOWING DOG TO STRAY CTS Govt. MP's wife denies allowing dog to stray An April trial date has been set in the case of a Government backbencher's wife accused of allowing her dog to stray and bite another dog.

Linda Horton, wife of Hamilton West MP Randolph Horton, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates' Court to allowing her Labrador to stray on July 15 last year.

Mrs. Horton, of 196 North Shore Road, Hamilton Parish, also denied a charge of owning a dog which bit another dog on its ears and chest on that day. The trial will be held on April 28.

The case revolves around a series of incidents in the Harlem Heights area involving Mrs. Horton's dog and neighbour Jennifer Dwinnell's English Setter.

PAIR TO FACE JUDGE ON TWO STEALING CHARGES CTS Pair to face judge on two stealing charges Two men have been remanded into custody until they can face a Supreme Court judge on two stealing charges.

Coleridge Winslow Eve and Ryan Norris Furbert did not have to plead in Magistrates' Court to a charge they broke into Paul Hayward's warehouse in Warwick on Christmas Eve and stole $10,000 worth of shoes, shirts, trousers, and baseball caps.

Eve, 41, of Bulkhead Drive, Warwick, will also face a charge of receiving two shoes, two shirts, a pair of jeans, a FUBU baseball cap and Nike gloves between December 24 and January 3.

Furbert, 33, of no fixed abode, will face a charge of breaking and entering the Pirate's Landing Restaurant in Dockyard on December 28 and stealing a safe, cash, and cheques worth $3,000.

The men will be brought back to court on February 4 for a mention hearing.