Police accused of planting weapon @ VG home
Heard before Magistrate Ayana Baptiste-DaBreo today, the trial continued in the case of David N. Straker and Jacintha Faulkner of Virgin Gorda who were both charged with keeping unlicensed firearms, unlawful possession of firearms and unlawful possession of ammunition.
Cross examining one of the witnesses in the case, Police Officer Carlton Saunders, was defence attorney Marlon Gordon.
Saunders was among a party of Police Officers who descended on the homes of Straker and Faulkner in the execution of a search warrant.
The hilarious comeback with regard to not being the famed civil rights activist came when Gordon put to the witness that he cannot establish as fact that Straker and Faulkner shared a common law union.
On the witness stand, Saunders testified that during the course of executing a search warrant on the homes of both Faulkner and Straker, he was told by Faulkner that she shared a common law union with Straker.
“Were you dreaming about Faulkner being in a common law relationship with Straker,” asked Gordon.
“I am not dreaming…I am not [Rev.] Martin Luther King Jr,” was the snappy comeback by Officer Saunders. “There were conversations in which Ms Faulkner said that [she and Straker] had a relationship,” he said.
Further, Gordon asked Saunders whether a gun that he said he found under a washbasin in one of the homes was planted by him. He said he asked the question since the officer easily found the weapon.
Saunders denied this allegation.
The case continues tomorrow December 3, 2015 at the John’s Hole Magistrate's Court.
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so you want to tell me that the police walk with a high powered rifle at 430 am and planted it in a known d*** d***er home? nonesense, foolishness.