By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Court Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A MAN was fined in a Magistrate’s Court yesterday after admitting responsibility for two dogs that attacked a police officer at Arawak Cay last week.
Lyndon Eldon, 58, stood before Senior Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans on multiple charges in relation to the attack.
These included permitting a ferocious dog to be at large, being a person who keeps and owns a dangerous dogs that injure persons while being dangerously out of control in a public place and resisting arrest.
He was also charged with two counts of being a person who keeps and owns a dog without a dog licence or identification tag, two counts of being the keeper of dangerous dogs who permits the dangerous dogs to roam in a public place and two counts of failing to keep a dangerous dog under control.
It is said that on October 22 around 6.30pm at Saunders Beach, the accused allowed the public to suffer the threat of a large, ferocious dog.
On November 16 at Arawak Cay after Reserve Inspector Carlton McPhee was alerted by tourists of two out of control dogs, he approached the defendant’s vehicle and the two German Shepherds jumped him. While the officer managed to fight off the animals, one managed to bite his right shoe without it breaking skin. When Inspector McPhee apprehended the dogs, later identified as Zena and Mystique, owner Eldon is said to have resisted arrest.
In court, Eldon pleaded guilty to all charges. The magistrate ordered him to compensate the officer $250 for the incident with the resisting arrest charge being formally withdrawn.
For the remaining charges, the accused faced a collective $250 fine or a seven-day sentence at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.
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