A Sandys man was fined $1,000 for brandishing a piece of wood at Police officers and resisting arrest during a heated domestic dispute.

In Magistrates' Court yesterday, Troy Harris, 35, of Tankard Lane, pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening manner and resisting arrest in Sandys on January 31, 2005.

Harris' girlfriend told Police she ran out the house, before he locked her out, because she was scared of his behaviour.

Police entered the home through a back window, grabbed Harris and took him outside.

“He was armed with a 24-inch piece of wood and threatened Police with it,” Crown counsel Anthony Blackman said.

Harris, however, said he never raised the stick and was only using it to jam a window closed.

Harris told Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner he was intoxicated when he resisted arrest.

Mr. Warner fined him $500 for threatening behaviour and $500 for resisting arrest.

Cricket club broken into

A 21-year-old St. David's man admitted breaking into his local cricket club to steal liquor.

In Magistrates' Court yesterday, Randall Thomas Hall, of Lighthouse Hill, admitted breaking into the St. David's Cricket Club and stealing several bottles of liquor on February 5, 2005.

Crown counsel Anthony Blackman said yesterday that on February 5, the complainant Maria Middletown locked the front door of the club and left the building for the night.

But the next morning ten bottles of liquor were missing from the store room.

Later that day Hall approached her and confessed his crime.

“He told her he was responsible and wanted the liquor for his own use,” Mr. Blackman said. “But somehow he was not pleased with what he did and wanted to confess”.

Hall seems to have difficulty with liquor, he added.

Hall told Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner he returned all the bottles, has been banned from the club and has had charges pressed against him.

Mr. Warner ordered a social inquiry report and granted Hall $1,000 bail with one surety to appear for sentencing on April 14.

However, before he was allowed to leave the court, he had to explain why he had not paid an old fine of $1,000 for impaired driving on March 25, 2004.

When told he was facing three months in prison, he said he would try to get the money right away.

“The fine needs to be paid today or do the time,” Mr. Warner said. “It's not a question of trying”.

Driving over the limit leads to ban

A Warwick man was fined $1,000 and disqualified from driving all vehicles for 12 months for drunk driving.

Police found Dewight Jarrett, 27 of Burnt Hill Lane, near a car that hit a wall near Locust Lane and Middle Road, Devonshire on February 6, 2005. His eyes were glazed and his speech was slurred.

Jarrett's lowest breathalyser reading was 196 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 milligrams.