A CONSTRUCTION worker who appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday admitted to two counts of threatening behaviour and would have to pay up $40,000 in fines, despite claiming to be under the influence of alcohol at the time. 

Twenty-seven-year-old Odell Drakes (no address given) pleaded guilty to both offences that said on Thursday, November 28 at Georgetown, he made use of threatening behaviour to Trevor Maxwell and Bevon Thorn.
Maxwell told the court that on the day in question he went to a shop to get C-point and afterwards as he was going to his car, the defendant, whom he is not familiar with, armed himself with a knife and gun and threatened to murder him.
Thorn, the other virtual complainant (VC), noted that he lives in the same area as the defendant and the incident with him occurred prior to the one involving Maxwell. He further explained that on the day at around 17:20hrs he went to the said shop to purchase a soda and the defendant who was also there said: “People like y’all have to die” and kept on in that vein in a rage. He added that after Drakes threw a punch at him, he dodged and subsequently lifted him up and put him to the ground. The shopkeeper then told him not to do anything to Drakes.
Drakes in his defence explained that what both victims were saying was true but at that time he was not armed with any gun. He added that he could not recall what exactly took place since he was under the influence of alcohol
Police Prosecutor, Sergeant Vishnu Hunt told the court that the facts were as stated in the charge.
Drakes who had no previous conviction was fined $20,000 on each charge with an alternative of six months imprisonment.