Last night we reported that two men Leon Perez and Robert Chavez were again taken to court on rape charges but we also reported that the girl's mother Lavern Usher was being threatened by at least one of the men. Well today Leon Perez appeared in Magistrate's Court to answer to a charge of attempted suppression of evidence.
The police say that during the month of July on two separate occasions Perez threatened Usher telling her that if the case was not dropped she would not find her daughter. In court today Magistrate Harrison Hewlett pointed out that such an offence can only be laid during the actual course of the trial and furthermore there was no specific date on which the alleged offence occurred. Hewlett concluded that the facts do not disclose any offence. It was pointed out that the charge should have been threatening words. The men who were charged with rape, unlawful carnal knowledge, and indecent assault were granted bail in the sum of $6,000 which they met the case was adjourned until October 30th of this year.