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Dancehall entertainer Busy Signal, who was deported to the island last year, after serving time in a US prison, has been charged by the local police. Busy, whose given name is Glendale Gordon, was recently charged with obtaining passports in a false name. The charges stemmed from his arrest last year on an extradition warrant. During the arrest, it was disclosed, that he had unlawfully obtained three Jamaican passports in the name Reanno Gordon, which he used in his travels abroad as an entertainer. He’s scheduled to appear before the Corporate Area Criminal Court on Tuesday for a plea and case management hearing. Busy Signal returned to Jamaica late last year, after serving time in a US prison. He pleaded guilty to absconding bail in the US and was sentenced to six months. Busy had pleaded guilty in July, to one count of failure to appear in court, admitting that he left the United States 10 years ago, before a scheduled trial on drug charges. He had been charged in February 2002, with two counts related to cocaine trafficking, which carried a sentence of at least 15 years in prison. Although there was a warrant out for his arrest, he returned to Jamaica and established a successful career, until his detention in London in May last year while on tour. He was returned to Jamaica where he was arrested and later extradited.

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Rape nightmare caught on video
By KIRSTAN CONLEY and AMY STRETTEN
Last Updated: 6:41 AM, February 4, 2013

Cops yesterday released chilling video footage that shows a fiend dragging a woman in broad daylight into an alley near Brooklyn College before raping her — and throwing her phone over a wall so she couldn’t call for help.
The suspect first approached the 22-year-old victim near East 27th Street and Glenwood Road at 9:45 a.m. Saturday, police said.
The 5-foot-6 brute punched the helpless woman several times and forced her to walk through a building alley in Midwood, which was about a block from Brooklyn College and Midwood HS, sources said.
He then repeatedly assaulted and raped the woman, police said.
After the attack, the man — who told his victim he had a gun but never showed it — took the woman’s money and cellphone and then bolted, sources said.
He can be seen on surveillance footage throwing what appears to be the phone over a cement wall moments after the attack so that she couldn’t call anyone, cops added.
The victim had several bruises on her face and was struggling yesterday to recover from the traumatic attack.
Cops also recovered a condom in the alley and are testing it for DNA evidence that could help them identify the suspect. He was described as a black male in his mid-20s, 5-foot-6 with a medium build and a bald head.
He was last seen sporting a blue Yankees baseball hat with white brim, a dark gray jacket, a white T-shirt and jeans.

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News of the vicious daytime attack shocked local residents.
“I’ve never heard of something like that happening around here,” said Nadia Wesley, 26, who graduated from Midwood HS in 2004 and lives in the neighborhood.
Usually, Wesley said, the area around the nearby Jamaican restaurant where she works will have problems with patron fights and the local homeless community — but never something like this.
She said she’s noticed an increased police presence in the area over the past couple of years, making it even more terrifying that a sicko would think he could get away with such a daylight crime.
“I wouldn’t advise young women to walk in the street at night, especially around here,” Wesley counseled. “It’s really dark there.”
Another neighbor, Tonika Campbell, 20, recalled being followed by a strange man in the same neighborhood not long ago.
“There are a lot of creeps around here these days,” Campbell said.
The two women said they would go out of their way to take well-lit streets near corner stores they know would be open to stay safe.
Campbell’s friend Geena Ellewney, 21, warned, “Walk with people that you know, especially if it’s late at night . . . Keep looking back to make sure no one is following you. Don’t take your chances.’’
Additional reporting by Larry Celona and Natasha Velez
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Embattled ‘Storyteller’ returns
Published: Sunday | February 3, 2013 19 Comments

Richard ‘Storyteller’ Morrison – Ian Allen/Photographer
Gary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

Alleged former Shower Posse gang leader Richard ‘Storyteller’ Morrison
has returned to Jamaica bitter and ashamed of his political leaders
who he says “betrayed, abandoned and sold me”.

Back on local soil, after spending 22 years in a United States (US)
prison, a relaxed Morrison proclaimed that he was pleased to be home a
free man.

The prolonged embrace between Morrison and his mother minutes after he
was processed and released by local police last Thursday spoke volumes
of the relief of the man whose 1991 high-profile extradition generated
a near five-year-long diplomatic stand-off between Jamaica and the US.

Morrison was whisked away to the US, in 1991, through what local
officials described as “an administrative error” before his appeal
against his extradition was completed.

“I am past bitter. I am embarrassed for these people who claimed to be
scholars and claimed to have integrity,” declared Morrison in an
interview with The Sunday Gleaner immediately after he was deported to
Jamaica.

“I have never dealt with a more corrupt set of people,” he charged.

Storyteller spoke easily as he described his case from the one-year
stay in custody in Jamaica to the prison bars in the US as an
“extraordinary prosecution for an ordinary man”.

JUSTICE DENIED

He said: “I have been pursuing my due-diligence claim since 1991 to no
avail. I can say that I have regained my liberty, but justice has
eluded me to this day.”

Asked how he felt to be back in Jamaica, Morrison declared, “Getting
off the aircraft in Jamaica was entirely different from getting on
another 23 years ago.”

He added: “I was forcefully taken out of the country by multiple
police officers in violation of my due-process rights. Although I told
them that I had an appeal pending, nobody seemed to care.

“I was threatened with physical force, even the threat of death … if I
refused to comply with their order to go with the US federal
marshals.”

Morrison charged that while he has interfaced with dishonest men in
the streets, both in Jamaica and the US, nothing could be compared
with the treachery he discovered in high places.

“The reputations of the men in the streets precede them. If a person
is not a trustworthy person in the streets, someone will inform you
that that person is not to be trusted and you have the option of
avoiding them,” Morrison told The Sunday Gleaner.

“This is the first time I had to rely on the ‘trust’ of persons who I
did not choose to deal with,” said Morrison.

“I have never dealt with a more corrupt set of people. Supreme Court
case laws said it can’t be done, but they did it anyway.”

An obviously bitter Morrison had harsh words for the administration
that was in power when he was extradited.

“I lost my liberty on July 4, 1990 in Jamaica and I was incarcerated
until January 31, 2013 – unconstitutionally, I might add – by
governmental actions from certain members of the previous P.J.
Patterson administration.”

Morrison charged that the Government of the day acted “in collusion
with certain jurisdictional members of and executive branch members of
the United States”.

RIGHTS BREACHED

Morrison charged that his constitutional rights were breached on more
than five occasions within the jurisdictions of both the US and
Jamaica.

He pointed to what he said was a breach of his constitutional rights
to due process in Jamaica, having been denied his right to appeal
before being carted off to the US, as well as a violation of the
extradition treaty.

Morrison complained that the US authorities also trampled on his
due-process rights under the Fifth Amendment.

Most significantly, he contended, the US officials blatantly violated
Article Three of that country’s constitution when his case was tried
in the wrong jurisdiction, despite the vehement protests by his legal
team.

“In essence, I had been incarcerated on the judgment of a court that
lacked the constitutional power from June 14, 1991 to January 31,
2013, when I got off that aircraft in Jamaica,” said Morrison.

“What they did was not a mistake as case laws and the US constitution
says it cannot be done, but they just threw everything out the
window.”

While he has vowed to continue his fight for redress, Morrison
harbours other dreams.

Although the children he left behind are now adults, Morrison said he
would be trying to get back as much quality time with them after he
spent much of last Thursday being processed at Harman Barracks at Up
Park Camp then at the Denham Town Police Station before being allowed
to meet his family.

The ‘Storyteller’ story

Richard Orville ‘Storyteller’ Morrison, then 40, and his associate,
Lester Lloyd Coke, better known as ‘Jim Brown’, had been arrested on
extradition warrants after United States law-enforcement agencies
accused them of being the leaders of the notorious Shower Posse.
They were wanted for trial in south Florida, in connection with a
number of gruesome crimes committed by members of the Shower Posse,
which originated out of Tivoli Gardens in west Kingston.

Both were seeking leave to appeal their extradition orders to the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

Jim Brown perished in a mysterious fire, which gutted his prison cell
on February 23, 1991.

On June 12, 1991, an admini-strative error in the registry of the
Jamaican Court of Appeal – the misplacing of a document confirming
Morrison’s intention to appeal – led to him being surrendered
prematurely to US law-enforcement agents.

EFFORTS TO RETURN FAILED

The Jamaican Government made diplomatic and legal efforts to have the
Americans return him, since he had not been legally extradited, but
these failed.

In April 1992, he was tried in the Middle District Court, Fort Myers,
Florida, and sentenced to 241/2 years’ imprisonment without parole on
cocaine charges.

At the time, the Morrison case generated a lot of discussion in
Jamaica and in the US and escalated into an international dispute of
sorts between the two countries, with the Jamaican Government
complaining that there had been a breach of the extradition treaty.

Extraditions from Jamaica to the US were also suspended.

The stance of the US authorities then was that they were not going to
release someone once that accused person was in the country, even if
he had an appeal pending elsewhere and despite how he had got to
America in the first place.

In June 1995, K.D. Knight, then minister of national security and
justice, explained to Parliament Jamaica’s position on the Morrison
case and on the extradition treaty in general.

He said that on the instructions of Cabinet, the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs had sent two diplomatic notes to the US government.

The first note brought to the attention of the US the fact that
Morrison had been tried for an offence other than the offence for
which he had been extradited in circumstances which constituted a
breach of Article XIV of the extradition treaty.

The second diplomatic note proposed negotiations with the US to amend
the extradition treaty.

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The United Nations says the Jamaican government should decriminalise the buggery law. Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP) Dr. Arun Kashyap said this should be done as it is in line with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Kashyap said the UN was elated with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller’s statement in the debates leading up to the 2011 general election. “We were very proud to hear when at that time the candidate and now Prime Minister very proudly said that she would have homosexuals in her cabinet …at this time if you talk to business leaders there is that acceptance but that doesn’t mean that the whole country has accepted that. So rather than rushing through the process, I will always say how do you create the right opportunities and time to do it”. The UN representative said the organisation can assist the government in moving in that direction. “We can start through advocacy, we can certainly start through building capacity, we can start by bringing in the best legal practices, ultimately its up to the Government , how they will handle it. In an ideal world, the earlier it happens the better it is but it also takes some time” he said. Meanwhile, Jamaica’s stance on homosexuality and buggery, will not hinder it receiving money from the Global Fund towards the country’s fight against HIV/AIDS. The assurance was given by Kashyap who was a guest at the weekly forum of the RJR News Centre. There has been concern, that the country could face a reduction in funding for the fight against HIV/AIDS, due to laws banning buggery.