Police officers outside Supreme Court last Thursday, was remanded in custody yesterday when he appeared in Magistrates' Court.

Butler pleaded not guilty to unlawfully assaulting Amanda Blakeney, his ex-wife Gina Laverne Butler and four Police officers who were attempting to arrest him.

He also denied acting in a threatening manner in the Supreme Court foyer and possessing an offensive weapon, namely a chisel.

All alleged incidents took place on September 21, 1995. Butler elected a Magistrates' Court trial which was set down for October 13, 1995. He will appear for mention on October 6.

Senior Crown counsel Mr. Brian Calhoun opposed bail for Butler, 32, of School Lane, Sandys, and the court upheld his request.

Lawyer Mr. Mark Diel represented Butler during the bail hearing. However, he said that his client will have to retain another lawyer because Mr. Mark Pettingill, a Crown witness, was also a member of his law firm.

MOM BOUND OVER FOR ASSULTING CHILD CTS Mom bound over for assaulting child A Pembroke mother-of-two was bound over in Magistrates' Court yesterday after she pleaded guilty to assaulting her daughter on January 31.

Police prosecutor Insp. Peter Duffy told the court that the 25-year-old woman hit her eight-year-old daughter in the head because she had left her raincoat at school the previous day. The mother then left the girl alone at home while she went to work.

A spokeswoman from Family Services said the children and the mother were now being monitored by the Coalition for the Protection of Children and Family Services. Both the children and the mother were also receiving counselling.

Acting Magistrate the Wor. Kenneth Brown told the woman that he would bind her over for 12 months which did not mean she was "getting off''. He said if she got into trouble over the next 12 months then she could be punished for this offence also.

Mr. Brown told her he knew it must be stressful to raise two children but she had to remain calm. He added that she was lucky to be in Bermuda with the Department of Social Services to help her.

WOULD-BE BIKE THIEVES GET PROBATION CTS Would-be bike thieves get probation Two Mount St. Agnes Academy students were each given two years probation for trying to steal a motorcycle.

And Acting Senior Magistrate the Wor. Edward King said Desmond Trott, 17, of Sea Wall Drive, Sandys, and Keith Lavar Hollis, 16, of Red Kiln Road, Hamilton Parish, would have been jailed had it not been first offence.

The cycle was parked outside the owner's home on Woodbourne Avenue in Pembroke shortly after 9.30 p.m. on July 28.

Police on foot patrol noticed the two boys nearby the cycle. They said the were repairing it, but a neighbour said the cycle did not belong to them.

Mr. King said his policy was to send bike thieves to prison but the law would not let him send a first-time offender away.

UNDER-AGED DRIVER FINED $800, BANNED CTS Under-aged driver fined $800, banned Riding a scrambler motorcycle in a dangerous manner while under-aged cost a Sandys youth $800 and a year off the road.

Cyril D. Maybury, 17, of Simmons Lane, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court yesterday to driving while disqualified by age, having no third-party insurance, and driving in a dangerous manner.

According to Police prosecutor Sgt. Kenrick James, Police were on patrol when they saw a red scrambler overtake a car at high speed on Middle Road in Sandys.

Police pursued the bike and used emergency lights to signal the rider to stop, Sgt. James said. However Maybury continued to speed.

The rider turned on to the Railway Trail and soon after he and a passenger fell off the bike.

Maybury -- an employee of The Reefs -- and the other youth ran away but were chased and caught by Police.

Magistrate the Wor. Edward King banned Maybury from driving all motor vehicles for a year for the dangerous driving charge. He also ordered him to pay $500 for riding a motorcycle while disqualified by age, and $300 for not having third-party insurance.

VISITOR HID POT AMONG HER UNDERWEAR CTS Visitor hid pot among her underwear Hiding cannabis among her underwear earned an American visitor a $350 fine in Magistrates' Court yesterday.

Michelle J. Lettire, of New York, pleaded guilty to possessing 2.55 grams of cannabis and possessing cigarette papers for the use of drugs.

Police prosecutor Sgt. Kenrick James said Lettire arrived in Bermuda on September 21 and was searched by Customs officers at the airport.

Customs officers found cigarette papers in her pants pocket and two zip-lock bags containing cannabis in a bag full of her underwear, Sgt. James said.

Yesterday, Lettire told Magistrate the Wor. Edward King: "I apologise greatly, I have been here before''.

"I brought a couple of joints with me for relaxation and to help me sleep,'' she said.

MAN DENIES ASSAULTING POLCIE OFFICER CTS Man denies assaulting Police officer A 33-year-old Southampton man yesterday denied assaulting a Police officer.

Steven Thomas Bean, of Well Bottom, also pleaded not guilty in Magistrates' Court to breaching the peace and using offensive words at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

Magistrate the Wor. Edward King released Bean on $500 bail with a like surety.

Bean will stand trial for the September 23 incident on January 10.

A `COUPLE OF DRINKS' AND OFF THE ROAD CTS A `couple of drinks' and off the road Driving after "a couple of drinks'' gained a St. George's man a $400 fine and a year off the road yesterday.

Claude Allen, 35, of Wellington Lane, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to driving while impaired.

Police prosecutor Sgt. Kenrick James said Police saw a car travelling erratically on Wellington Street shortly after noon on September 4. Police followed the car.

Sgt. James said when the officers stopped the car and spoke to the driver -- who was Allen -- they smelled alcohol on his breath and noticed that his eyes were glossy.

Allen told the officers that he had "only had a couple of drinks''.

Subsequent tests revealed that he had 146 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

When asked what he had to say in court, Allen told Magistrate the Wor. Edward King that it was "just one of those things''.

Mr. King responded: "If you are going to drink only have one drink.'' BROKE ESTRANGED WIFE'S WINDOW, FINED CTS Broke estranged wife's window, fined Breaking a car window and unlawfully entering his estranged wife's home earned a Pembroke man a $250 fine.

Edmund J. Johnson, of Edgeway Lane, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to unlawfully causing $1,271.20 damage to a car and unlawfully entering the home of his estranged wife.

According to Police prosecutor Sgt. Kenrick James, Johnson went to his estranged wife's home in Smith's Parish on August 15 to use the car.

When Johnson's wife told him he could not use the car, he broke one of the car's windows.

Sgt. James said Johnson's wife, the following day, reported someone had broken into the home. But she could not find anything missing.

Police later picked up Johnson and he admitted damaging the window and breaking into the house to get his clothes because he said he was going to stay with his mother for a few days.

Yesterday Johnson told Magistrate the Wor. Edward King: "It is both of our car and she was being selfish.'' Mr. King fined Johnson $250 for breaking the car window, and gave him a conditional discharge for six months for unlawfully entering the house.