NASSAU, Bahamas, Jan 8, CMC – The former Chief Superintendent of Police, Michael Johnson, has been offered US$25,000 bail, after he and two others appeared in court on a number of charges.
Johnson, attorney Bjorn Ferguson, and police sergeant, Deangelo Rolle, appeared in the Magistrates Court after police said they had concluded a corruption probe that was sparked by leaked voice notes.
Johnson, 53, is charged with conspiracy to commit bribery, stealing, receiving, and accessory after the fact. He is s accused of stealing US$90,000 from a suspect in the US$1.475 million theft at the Odyssey Airport on November 3, 2023.
Ferguson is accused of acting as an accessory after the fact to gang leader Michael Fox by assisting him in avoiding due process. Fox was a suspect in the heist but he was never charged.
Rolle is accused of abetting Johnson in the theft of the US$90,000.
Bail has been set at US$7,500 each for while Ferguson and Rolle got $7,500 bail and the e Last week, Johnson, resigned from the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) as the investigations continue into an explosive audio recordings which alleged corruption and misconduct.
Johnson had gone on leave last July, after the shocking recordings were leaked on social media. The person who shared the recordings on Facebook last year also released what he claimed is evidence that some police officers were sharing with hitmen, the GPS locations of men on bail, who are being electronically monitored with ankle bracelets. The man claimed the hit men then carried out gangland assassinations of these men on bail.
Former police commissioner, Clayton Fernander, confirmed that police had interviewed a former high-ranking officer and an attorney at the centre of their investigations into the leaked voice recordings in recent days.
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