Cop tricked City Puss on visit to prison

City Puss, the alleged deputy leader of the One Don faction of the Clansman Gang reportedly caused a commotion in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court in 2018, after he was reportedly tricked and charged for extortion and breaches of the anti-gang law by a gang investigator.

"He started a tantrum from he entered the courtroom to when he entered the dock," the now-retired inspector said, while recalling that the commotion lasted about 15 minutes

"He was behaving boisterously, he was shouting and saying him don't even know dem man deh why we charged him wid dem," the retired gang inspector further recalled.

The police witness previously testified that after receiving extortion voices notes, which had been circulating in Spanish Town, St Catherine, and listening to live conversation in which the same person would call and threaten business operators, he went to visit the alleged perpetrator in prison.

The police witness, who had never met the alleged gangster before, said he was told by female defendant Stephanie Christie, that City Puss' correct name was Jason Brown, and that he was at Horizon Adult Correctional Facility.

The investigator said that he went to the prison under the guise that he was a gangster and spent an hour chatting with him before surprising him with criminal charges.

According to the officer, whose goal that day was to confirm whether the voices on the voice notes and in the live conversation was Brown's, he spent an hour chatting with City Puss, and after he was satisfied that it was him, revealed his true identity to the alleged gangster and charged him.

He said he was not amused and after realising that he was bamboozled, reportedly hurled expletives at the officer and threatened him.

The officer told the court yesterday that during the disturbance at the Resident Magistrate's Court he observed that Brown's voice was the same one he had heard in the voice notes, the live conversation, and when he spoke to him at Horizon.

The retired cop further told the court that after Brown was escorted from the court and placed in a holding area at the court, he deliberately went and sat in front of the cell just to provoke him into cursing.

"I knew my presence there would have angered him," the officer admitted.

The retired inspector said he did this so he could listen to more of Brown's voice and did so for about 30-45 minutes.

The trial will continue today.