A Sandys man accused of chopping a Policeman on the top of the head with a machete was released on $10,000 bail.

Terry Eugene Thomas, 47, of Sound View Road, was represented by Charles Richardson who argued that his client was prepared to pay whatever surety necessary.

Mr. Richardson also stated that Thomas turned himself in to Police after the alleged attack. It is claimed a Police officer was left with a four inch gash in his head and lacerations to his abdomen.

Crown counsel Paula Tyndale objected to bail saying Thomas was charged with a serious, unprovoked and violent assault on several Police Officers with a bladed weapon.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner said attacks with bladed weapons in public were a ?serious matter?. However, he was satisfied Thomas would answer bail.

?But if one of the objections had been that he would re-offend he would definitely be remanded.?

Mr. Warner ordered Thomas to report to Somerset Police Station twice a week and adjourned the matter until October 14.

Thomas is charged with unlawfully wounding P.c. Shawn Broomes, assaulting with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and assault with the intention of doing bodily harm to Sgt. Corvill Hylton on August 16.

He is also facing charges of being in possession of two offensive weapons ? a machete and a pipe.

Visitor hid cannabis cigarettes down trousers

An American visitor was fined $1,000 in Magistrates? Court for stashing cannabis cigarettes down his trousers.

Daniel Thomas Sealzi, 50, of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, pleaded guilty to importing cannabis to Bermuda on September 27.

Crown counsel Paula Tyndale said Sealzi had arrived on a commercial flight from the US at 2.44 p.m. on Tuesday, when a Police dog was attracted to his trousers.

After a personal search Customs officers found five cigarettes containing 1.81 grams of cannabis.

Teen forged cheque he stole from godmother

A teenager was sentenced to six months in prison and two years? probation after admitting to forging a cheque he stole from his godmother to buy groceries.

Alvone Maybury, 19, of Crane Lane, Pembroke, pleaded guilty in Magistrates? Court on Friday to stealing Dorothy Young?s cheque between August 24 and August 27.

Maybury, who was unrepresented, also said he was guilty of forging the cheque for the sum of $384.01 in favour of the MarketPlace in Hamilton and signed by Malisa Swan on August 29.

And he admitted to knowingly and fraudulently uttering the stolen cheque by pretending his godmother had signed it on September 29.

Crown counsel Paula Tyndale said Maybury was unemployed, had previous convictions for stealing and was currently serving a two-year sentence of probation.

His Probation Officer told the court he was not working with the Department of Court Services and recommended a period of imprisonment.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner asked Maybury why he did not have a job.

?I was going to look for a job the next day but I got arrested,? he said.

The magistrate asked him what he did in school, but he said he did not do anything in school.

The Department of Child and Family Services sent Maybury to an overseas reform school which he described as more like a prison than a school.

On his return from reform school, he was caught breaking and entering and received a nine month suspended sentence in March.

Maybury broke into defence lawyer Charles Richardson?s grandmother?s home.