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A Filipina accused of dropping a safe from a 16th floor flat
in Discovery Bay, barely avoided being arrested for failure to show up at the hearing of her case at Eastern Court on Wednesday (Aug. 21) when she surrendered later in
the day.
Deputy Magistrate Cindy Li cancelled the warrant of arrest she
earlier issued against A.G. Chavanne, 39 years old, but forfeited her
$1,000 cash bail.
Magistrate Li set her free on a new and higher cash bail of
$5,000, with the admonition that she show up on Sept. 6 for the handing down of verdict.
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| PINDUTIN DITO |
Chavanne was put on trial on a charge of dropping a safe from a
window of a 16th floor flat in Cherish Court in Discovery Bay last Jan. 25 “to
the danger or injury of any person outside the building”, which is a public
place, an act prohibited under Section 4B (1) the Summary Offences Ordinance.
The law provides that if “anything is dropped or allowed to
fall from any building to the danger or injury of any person in or near a
public place, the person who drops that thing or allows it to fall commits an
offence and is liable to a fine at level 3 ($10,000) and imprisonment for 6
months.”
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| Basahin ang detalye! |
The charge took the place of a withdrawn criminal intimidation case, in which Chavanne was accused of threatening to harm Cassius Crowther in the same Discovery Bay flat 19 days earlier, on Jan. 6.
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