Ak­ile Si­mon

?The son of a Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter has been ar­rest­ed for al­leged­ly us­ing ob­scene lan­guage to­wards po­lice of­fi­cers as they were con­duct­ing a breathal­yser ex­er­cise on the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) Curepe, last Fri­day. Two of the sus­pect's friends were al­so ar­rest­ed by Traf­fic Branch po­lice for fail­ing the test. The min­is­ter's son was re­leased on his own bail and or­dered to ap­pear be­fore a Tu­na­puna mag­is­trate to­mor­row, to an­swer the charge.

Traf­fic Branch of­fi­cers with ASP Naipaul and Sgt Si­mon pulled over a ve­hi­cle in which the min­is­ter's son was a pas­sen­ger. A breath test was con­duct­ed on the dri­ver and he was found to be over the al­co­hol lim­it. The dri­ver of an­oth­er ve­hi­cle with friends of the min­is­ter's son al­so failed the test. Of­fi­cers claim that as they were about to ar­rest one of the dri­vers, the min­is­ter's son al­leged­ly be­gan to "act up," ask­ing the law­men if they knew who his fa­ther is. The man was then ar­rest­ed along with the two dri­vers and tak­en to the Tu­na­puna Po­lice Sta­tion. (AS)