Man in dock for trying to buy docket
A Portuguese man facing a drunken driving charge, appeared in court accused of trying buying his drunk driving docket.
|||Cape Town - A Portuguese man facing a drunken driving charge, appeared in court on Monday, accused of buying his drunk driving docket during a police “sting” operation.
Antonio Manuel Rodrigus Alves, 53, was released on R5 000 bail when he appeared in the Goodwood District Court, before magistrate Sean Leah, charged with corruption.
According to the charge sheet, he was arrested in the corruption case, on Friday, December 4.
Defence lawyer Niel Slabber told the court that Alves had no outstanding warrants of arrest waiting for execution, nor any previous convictions.
Alves is scheduled to appear on Tuesday, in the same court, on the drunken driving charge.
The corruption charge results from an alleged incident last Friday, when he offered a police warrant officer R2 500 for the drunken driving docket, at the McDonald’s Bothasig outlet.
On Saturday, police spokesman Constable Noloyiso Rwexana said Alves had a drunken driving charge pending against him, from an alleged incident in 2013.
On Friday, the Bothasig police station commander, Lt-Col Patrick Jacobs, received information that Alves was looking for someone to help him make the drunk driving docket “disappear” before his appearance on Tuesday.
Permission was obtained from the National Prosecuting Authority to execute an undercover operation.
Goodwood prosecutor Benito Adonis told the court that Alves’s appearance was the result of the police trap.
He alleges that the “sting” happened at the McDonald’s Bothasig outlet, where Alves bought the docket from a member of the Parow Crime Intelligence Unit, posing as a police official in the market to sell the docket.
Police observed while the deal was in progress, and afterwards arrested Alves as he sat in his car with the docket in his possession.
In the corruption case, Alves was warned to appear in court again on January 20.
African News Agency
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