Two people pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to giving Police officers false names to avoid traffic fines.

Timothy Nelms and Akilah Smith, both from Devonshire, admitted attempting to pervert the course of justice in separate incidents last week.

According to Crown counsel Takiyah Burgess, Police stopped Smith on August 12 after they saw her ignore a traffic sign on Lighthouse Road.

After the Roberts Avenue resident was pulled over, she reportedly had to take off a pair of headphones in order to hear the officers.

Before being ticketed for ignoring a traffic sign, driving without due care and riding without a valid license, she told officers that her name was Kenia Burgess.

The next day, on August 13, officers called Smith on the phone number she gave them and visited her at her home. Confronted, she admitted lying about her name, saying: "I was afraid."

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner fined Smith $300.

The same day that Police confronted Smith at her home, officers saw Nelms riding an unlicensed and uninsured green Suzuki motorcycle near the junction of Harrington Hundreds Road and Knapton Hill.

After being pulled over, the Sousa State Road resident allegedly told officers: "I just went to collect (the motorcycle) to repair a tire."

Asked for his name, he told officers that he was Peter Patrick Nelms, and not Timothy Nelms.

Two days later, officers looking into the charges became suspicious and on August 16, they visited Nelms home.

Questioned again, he admitted the offence, telling them that he wanted to get the matter over and done with.

Mr. Warner fined Nelms $400 for attempting to pervert justice.