{"id":31621,"date":"2013-02-13T22:24:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T03:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=31621"},"modified":"2013-02-13T22:24:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T03:24:42","slug":"tour-guide-in-jail-for-assaulting-threatening-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/02\/tour-guide-in-jail-for-assaulting-threatening-police","title":{"rendered":"Tour Guide In Jail For Assaulting, Threatening Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/02\/tour-guide-in-jail-for-assaulting-threatening-police-31621.html\/tour-guide\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31623\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31623\" title=\"tour-guide\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tour-guide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tour-guide.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tour-guide-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>A tour guide cried in anguish yesterday as a magistrate sentenced her to prison for assaulting police officers and threatening them as they tried to take her into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Edenah Farah, 36, broke down after Magistrate Derence Rolle-Davis ordered her jailed for a year.<\/p>\n<p>Rolle-Davis ordered police to arrest Farah\u2019s sister after she shouted out, \u201cThis doesn\u2019t make any sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PC Gilbert said Farah, who conducts Segway tours, was leading a group of tourists on Woodes Rogers Walk on January 7, 2011 when he saw the group headed the wrong way on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert said he told Farah that he would give her a ticket for going the wrong way on a one way street. Farah allegedly told the officer that he couldn\u2019t book her and started to move away.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gilbert, when he tried to arrest her, she hit his hand. He called for reinforcements and six officers responded.<\/p>\n<p>Farah, in her defense, said the police were the aggressors. She suffered a broken arm, a tear in the right leg and bite marks about the body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice were left with little choice but to physically take her from the scene, calling for reinforcements only as a result of her actions,\u201d said Rolle-Davis.<\/p>\n<p>He said Farah could have prevented the situation by taking the ticket and leaving, rather than showing her disdain for the police.<\/p>\n<p>Farah\u2019s lawyer, Jomo Campbell, has appealed the conviction and sentence.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By Artesia Davis <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Guardian Senior Reporter<\/span> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edenah Farah, a 36-year-old tour guide, cried in anguish as a magistrate sentenced her to prison for assaulting police officers and threatening them as they tried to take her into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1169,1168,1166],"class_list":["post-31621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-edenah-farah","tag-threatening-police","tag-tour-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}