Joseph Camp Pleads Guilty to Spreading False News

Joseph Anthony Camp who, late last week, claimed that the police had shot his brother-in-law and then denied him medical attention pleaded guilty to Spreading False News today after the police department alleges that Camps’s claim was totally untrue. The thirty-nine-year-old American national was fined six hundred dollars when he appeared in court. He is the brother-in-law of eighteen-year-old Jaylon Jones, who was shot by police on April tenth. That night, Camp went live on Facebook and alleged that Jones was shot by police and was being denied medical access. And while during that post he indicated that he intended to sue the police department for violating Jones’ rights, he appeared today with attorney, Sharon Pitts to face his charge. Camp pleaded guilty and Pitts, in mitigation, pleaded to the court, seeking mercy for Camp, who she said did not waste the court’s time by pleading guilty at the onset, that Camp is a first-time offender with no previous convictions, and that prior to this incident, he was a law-abiding citizen who has donated to a basketball tournament and has assisted with donation to a hospital in Belize. She also argued that the charge for which he was before the court was a misdemeanour. Camp must pay the six-hundred-dollar fine, plus a five-dollar cost of court by June twenty-eighth or he will spend three months imprisonment.