Magistrate Billy Pidu

Tabubil District Court last week sentenced Telefomin Elementary School Coordinator, Brendon Itopi, 29, of Telefolip village to serve six months at Ningrum Correctional institute for damaging properties of a store worth K3, 266.

From police brief, it was alleged that on Saturday Feb 11, at around 8pm after consuming alcohol, Itopi went to Felok Trading at Telefomin Station to buy goods.

But the store had already closed for day and the accused started shouting for the store to open.

Stanley Navara of Londary village in Central Province was found guilty of the three traffic offences by the court in Western Province.

The defendant was given a month to pay K1, 500 and failure will  see him serve six months on the three charges, totalling 18 months behind bars.

From police brief provided, Navara was found to be unlicensed driving a motor vehicle when a routine police patrol caught him at Old Wangbin Settlement and taken to the police station.

Nelson Emeka Okpaca of Anambara State was caught last Thursday by local police for peddling at the market adjacent to the OTML sewerage treatment plant in Tabubil, Western Province. 

The expatriate appeared on Friday before Magistrate Billy Pidu.

Pidu, before handing down the court decision, told the defendant that his action was against the law and policy of the Ok Tedi Mining company, and also the country. 

Okpaca was released from Police custody after paying his K50 court fine.