Yesterday you heard Audrey Matura, the attorney for Immigration officer Monique Escalante, say that her client was being used as a scapegoat. That's after she was charged for one count of extortion against a Jamaican national, which reportedly took place at the PGIA.
ComPol Williams explained that, while he is not the judge nor the jury, the police only laid the charged after collecting sufficient evidence to support the allegation.
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"I don't expect the attorney to say otherwise, that's his job, or her job to make her client appear to be innocent. I'm not the arbitrator of the facts, I can only present the facts as they are and the court at the end of the day is going to determine her guilt or innocence but I know for a fact that there is surveillance footage showing the Immigration officer going to an ATM with the complainant and the complainant sought to withdraw money from this credit card but that did not materialize. We also have surveillance footage to show that the complainant was held at the airport for extended hours, at one point in time the airport actually closed and they were still there with him and the video footage shows certain things that supports the information provided by the complainant. I'm not going to say the Immigration officer is innocent or guilty, like I said, I am not the one who is going to decide that but from a police standpoint we have sufficient to have laid the charges against her."
