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$50,000 bribe offered over $3.80 ticket
AN international student offered police $50,000 to "forget what happened" when he was caught on a Brisbane train without a ticket, which would have cost just $3.80.Jehoiachin Onyins Ogbe, 25, ended up on bribery charges for offering police $50,000 after they caught him evading a $3.80 train fare, The Courier-Mail reports. As he was also found to have overstayed a student visa will also be deported from the country, the Brisbane District Court heard today.
While en-route to the Caboolture Watchhouse Ogbe began kicking the van walls so violently the vehicle momentarily lost traction, with the police officer driving forced to correct the steering wheel. After being placed inside a holding cell the Nigerian man insisted he was an American FBI agent, and began hitting his head against the cell door, prompting police to transfer him to a padded cell. During the transfer the man bit a police officer on the wrist, breaking the skin and drawing blood, Mr Ashen said. Once in the padded cell the defendant offered police $50,000 to release him and drop the charges, the court was told. Ogbe yesterday pleaded guilty to a raft of charges including seriously assaulting police, wilful damage, travelling without paying a fare and bribery. The court heard the bitten police officer endured months of ongoing "emotional problems" as he waited for a blood test to clear him of serious infection. Judge Terrence Martin, SC, told Ogbe he had learned a "very expensive lesson" and jailed him for six months. Posted by: tipper 2008-12-22 |
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