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Big Tom Jailed For 6 Months
posted (May 21, 2015)
In November of 2013, Kenneth Big Tom Flowers spoke to us as a deportee who was ready to turn his life around. But, since then, he's been consistently in trouble with the law - he says the cops are targeting him, they say it's for a good reason.

Well, it seems the cops won because, tonight, the 38 year-old is spending his first night of a 6 month prison sentence after he was taken back before the Magistrate's court. This time, he was caught driving a vehicle after he driver's license was suspended.

That happened 2 months ago, when Flowers went before the Magistrate's Court for a traffic offense. The outcome of that case was that his licensed was suspended for 12 months. So, when police caught him driving a vehicle at the corner of Youth for the Future Drive and Ebony Street, they immediately arrested and charged him with the traffic offence of driving a motor vehicle whilst disqualified from driving. He was arraigned today before Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith, and he wasted no time, pleading guilty to the offence. When the Chief Magistrate checked into his background and realized that he had a court-ordered suspension on his driver's licensed, she took the view that Flowers was being brazenly defiant of a court order, which she found disrespectful. She ordered that he serve 6 month in jail for the conviction.

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