In an attempt to avoid being arrested for $2,100 of unpaid traffic fines and because a warrant had also been issued against him for further motoring offences, Jamel Jaki Nesbitt gave Police officers a false name when they captured him.

But it proved an unwise and costly deception as he ended up with another $1,300 worth of fines to pay or go straight to jail for three months after pleading guilty to giving Police a false name and trying to obstruct a Police officer.

Nesbitt, who in Magistrates? Court wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the words ?Money On My Mind,? was given until the end of business Friday to come up with total of $3,750 he now owes or face three months in prison.

The 23-year-old, from Gatehouse Lane, Sandys, was asleep in a parked car on October 19 when officers awoke him as they suspected he was Nesbitt and knew a warrant had been issued for his arrest.

According to Crown counsel Paula Tyndale, Nesbitt told the officers he was Jamel Wilkinson, but he was handcuffed regardless as officers prepared to search him.

?The defendant managed to break free and ran to Parsons Road and hid but the officers found him and cautioned him.

?They asked him why he gave a false name and he said it was because he knew there were warrants out for him,? she said.

In court Nesbitt apologised and said: ?I had been asleep and was a little disorientated. I?m sorry for wasting Police time.?

The court heard that Nesbitt already owed $2,100 in unpaid traffic fines.

He also admitted to speeding at 67 mph in June, for which he was fined $250 and for having no driver?s licence, for which he was fined a further $100.

For giving a false name to Police he was fined $300 and for obstructing Police fined a further $1,000 or face three months in jail.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner said: ?Your history shows you have no intention of paying fines to the court.

?When you had outstanding fines and warrants and would not come to court to be dealt with.?

He told Nesbitt he needed to pay all the fines by the end of Friday or go to jail for three months.

Nesbitt pleaded not guilty to a further matter of having in his possession a razor blade to be used with drugs on October 19.

That matter was adjourned for trial on December 18 in the Magistrates? Court.