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Rejected In Panama, Ghost Town Boss Goes Off At PGIA
posted (March 23, 2016)
Notorious Ghost Town leader Roger Anthony: whenever we hear his name the first thing that comes to mind is some gang warfare. But tonight he is in the news for something else completely: how about disorderly conduct at the PGIA?

Here's what happened: Anthony and his wife were heading to Panama over the past weekend. He claims that he was going to get medical treatment for his severe back pain, but Panamanian airport authorities sent him back to Belize saying they don't accept persons with a criminal record. So they sent Anthony and his wife back through Salvador. The trouble started when he arrived here yesterday after customs tried to search his wife – Anthony was with two children and shouting obscenities left and right – the police say. Assistant Commissioner of Police Edward Broaster told us that eventually 3 officers had to subdue him.

ACP Edward Broaster - O.C, Eastern Rural Division

"There was an incident at the Phillip Goldson International Airport yesterday where one Roger Anthony who was refuse to land in Panama over the weekend, his wife arrived at the PGIA and was subjected to search and he entered the arrival lounge acting boisterous and disorderly and he was escorted outside where he had to be subdued by 3 of our officers and he's now being faced charges of disorderly conduct, resisting arrests, assaulting police officers and threat of death to 2 of our officers."

Anthony has been charged with assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and threatening to kill an officer. Today in court, Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer questioned whether Anthony left to seek medical attention in Panama – she suggested that he had a pending court date which is why he left.

The Police Prosecutor informed the court that last week Friday Anthony failed to show up at court for a pending case. Instead, he sent a doctor's paper saying he was sick.

Anthony told the court that he was not trying to run from the police, the court or Belize because he has a family. He insists that all he was trying to do was to get help for his back.

He told the court that it's the GSU which got word to Panama and made it so that he would be intercepted as he touched down in Panama.

Anthony pleaded not guilty and was granted bail of $1,000 dollars.

His next court date is in May.

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