A man charged for being in possession of several bootleg DVD’s, confessed he was a DVD vendor when he appeared before the St Ann’s Bay Parish Court on Friday, January 27.
He is Damion Henry, a mason of Pimento Walk, Ocho Rios, St. Ann, who was charged for breaches of the Copyright Act and the Offensive Weapons Act.
When asked by parish judge Andrea Thomas about his connection with the discs, Henry told her that the DVD’s recovered on that day did not belong to him. He says they belonged to some other men with whom he was “talking” and that they ran when they saw the police. However, he didn’t run and was held.
When Judge Thomas questioned his relation with the other men, Henry said he didn’t really know them. He added that “honestly, Your Honour, I sell CD’s but I wasn’t selling at that time… those weren’t mine.”
Henry is expected to return to court for his trial on May 31.
Henry was taken into custody during an operation carried out by the Proactive Unit in Ocho Rios in 2015. In this operation the police seized several DVDs, DVD cases, a quantity of cash and several knives.
