Cop charged with taking bribes

Colin Rodney

A police constable was yesterday charged with two counts of accepting bribes and he was released on $30,000 bail after his lawyer said he was wrongfully accused.

The courtroom of Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan heard that on June 15th, at the Kingston seawalls, Georgetown, Colin Rodney, 33, of Lot 17 Joseph Pollydore Street, Georgetown, engaged in a corrupt transaction as an agent of the state by accepting inducement from two men, Hushaam Mana and Saeed Gopie.

Rodney pleaded