ComPol Wants His Brother to Face the Court

Commissioner of Police Chester Williams has once again ordered the detention of his brother and the Crimes Investigation Branch wasted no time arresting and charging Arthur Roy Williams for an alleged social media post that was in circulation over the weekend.  This morning, Williams appeared before the lower court for another charge which was brought against him back in February.  Upon the conclusion of that matter, he was approached by C.I.B. personnel who informed him of the reason he was being detained.  It is alleged that on June twentieth, Williams posted a questionable Facebook message.  That message was immediately recorded by the Cyber Crimes Unit.  When asked if he believes that he has violated the terms of his bail condition, Williams said the post for which he is being blamed was simply forwarded to him by someone else.  In February, Williams was charged with two counts of using a computer system to disseminate false statement with the intent to cause another person to be subject to ridicule or embarrassment, and one count of using a computer system to publish computer data to intimidate a person.  The condition of the bail stipulated that he was not to use any form of social media to speak about his brother, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, or any member of the Belize Police Department.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“There was a situation, yes, where after the shooting at my house, my brother posted on social that he was upset with the gunman because the gunman wasted the bullet and shot it in the air. In other words, he suggested that the gunman should have either shot me or my son. He had been on court bail for the previous incident and to have gone on social media and posted such comment is a violation of his bail condition, so based on that he was picked up and I believe that he is going to be arraigned before the courts today.”

 

Reporter

“So should his bail be revoked and should he be sent to jail?”

 

Chester Williams

“I don’t want to wish bad for him. After all, he is my mother’s son. I cannot change that. I wish he would change the way he behaves because I personally have not done anything to him. I’ve always tried my best to reach out to him and when he needed help I was there for him. All of a sudden he became this totally different person and I don’t know if there is maybe something psychologically wrong with him. Maybe the court should order that there be a psychological evaluation on him, but something is definitely wrong. I was shopping to see if there could have been some mediation. As a matter of fact, the Mayor of Dangriga, Mr Mariano who happens to be our relative had called me once and so did Mr Arzu. He is a very good friend to both of us. They both had called me and said they would like to have a sit-down with me and my brother to see how this matter can be resolved. I said to them I have no issue and my intention was that whenever the matter would have been called up before the courts again I would have withdrawn the matter against him because he’s my brother. Both gentlemen spoke to me and him and we’re supposed to have that sit-down, but the day after they spoke to me and said what was his intention of trying to resolve the issue, he was on social media posting thing again. So how, how can I sit down with somebody who, um, is constantly saying things and do the contrary? So based on that I decided, you know, I’m not going to, um, have no sit down again. I’m going to just leave the matter to go through the court and take its course.”