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Woman admits assaulting officer

Heather James, of Market Lane, pleaded guilty to the offences in Magistrates' Court.Prosecutor Sgt. Donald Grant said Police responded to a domestic dispute complaint on Market Lane shortly after 2 a.m. on June 10.

woman $640 yesterday.

Heather James, of Market Lane, pleaded guilty to the offences in Magistrates' Court.

Prosecutor Sgt. Donald Grant said Police responded to a domestic dispute complaint on Market Lane shortly after 2 a.m. on June 10.

After speaking with the parties involved, Police arrested James.

As a Police officer was putting handcuffs on her, James bit his left upper arm and then began kicking the door on the Police car, doing $480 worth of damage, Sgt. Grant said.

Magistrate the Wor. Cheryl-Ann Mapp told James -- who has a seven-year-old son -- she was not setting a good example for him on how to respond to law enforcement officers.

Mrs. Mapp then fined her $300 for assaulting the officer, $100 for damaging the Police car, and $240 for compensation.

TEENAGER MAKES FALSE ACCUSATION CTS Teenager makes false accusation A 17-year-old Warwick girl falsely accused a 19-year-old of sexually assaulting her.

Police said the girl reported the alleged assault took place at a Paget school last Tuesday evening.

But Police investigations revealed that the girl had falsely identified herself to them, made misleading telephone calls and gave them false reports of her location.

A Police spokesman said five Police officers -- from two sections of the Police service -- spent more than three hours investigating the girl's accusations.

"The youth against whom the complaint was made was not arrested during the inquiry,'' he said, "but the girl is now the subject of Police action in connection with her complaint.'' REGGAE STAR'S DAOUGHTER IN COURT TRIAL CTS Reggae star's daughter in court trial Reggae star Judy Mowatt's daughter, Deborah Wallata Cole, faces a Supreme Court trial today on drugs charges.

Cole, 20, who lives in New York, is charged with conspiring with others to import cannabis with a street value of $160,000 into the Island between September 15 and 17.

She is also accused of importing the drug on September 17.

Yesterday, Cole appeared at a so-called voir dire hearing in the Supreme Court.

A voir dire is a hearing within a hearing in which the admissibility of evidence is debated on in the absence of the jury.

Cole's mother, who performed last year at the Culture Shock reggae concert in Somerset, was at the back of the court.