{"id":38603,"date":"2013-08-23T08:32:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T12:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=38603"},"modified":"2013-08-23T08:37:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T12:37:59","slug":"fired-cop-gets-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/08\/fired-cop-gets-bail","title":{"rendered":"Fired Cop Gets Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/08\/fired-cop-gets-bail-38603.html\/police-10\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38616\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38616\" title=\"police\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/police1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/police1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/police1-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/police1-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>A fired policeman was granted bail after prosecutors withdrew their objection to his release.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt deferred a bail hearing for ex-Constable 2944 Demetrius Hepburn last week after prosecutors claimed he could compromise pending investigations if released.<\/p>\n<p>Hepburn is accused of soliciting a $300 bribe from Antoine Sands on August 8 to prevent him from carrying out his duties as a policeman.<\/p>\n<p>Hepburn has denied the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>Hepburn, 27, worked as a policeman for nine years. His most recent posting was at the East Street Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>However, the commissioner of police dismissed him from the force shortly before he appeared in court on the extortion charge on August 22.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson-Pratt set bail at $8,000 with two sureties on the condition that he reports to the Grove Police Station on Tuesdays and Fridays before 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>She also forbade him from interfering with the witnesses in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Hepburn is represented by Roger Gomez Jr. Inspector Clifford Daxon is the prosecutor.<\/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>A fired policeman was granted bail after prosecutors withdrew their objection to his release.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-38603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38603","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=38603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}