Last night, we told you how 42 year-old Steven Buckley, who was awarded 100 thousand dollars by the state in August of 2013, ended up in jail last night for unpaid drug possession fines. Well, he won't have to be in jail for too long because a good Samaritan came to his rescue.
As we told you last night, he was arraigned yesterday before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer on the charge of drug possession for an undetermined amount of marijuana. He pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined $150 dollars. He would have been allowed to leave court since he had until March 31 to pay the fine, but the police checked into his background and found out that he had $360 in unpaid fines for previous convictions. So, because he hadn't paid, he was sent to jail to serve 3 months in jail in default.
Well, some unknown person was moved after hearing about Buckley's plight on the news, and that person moved to pay off the $360 in fines. That secures his release, which will happen at the earliest convenience, but he still has to pay $150 for the most recent conviction or else he'll have to spend another few weeks in jail because of it. There were two protesters on Regent Street today who were convinced that Buckley was taken advantage of.
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