PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten (28 October 2021) – The Court of First Instance handed down a one-month sentence on Wednesday to a man for assaulting a woman, resisting arrest, damaging a police car, and threatening two police officers.
The man previously received a three-month conditional sentence in November 2020 for assaulting the same woman. Due to his repeat offense against her and his actions against the police, the judge in the Court of First Instance made one of those three conditional months into actual prison time and his probationary period for other two months was extended by one year. That means if he were to re-offend during his probation, he will also have to sit the two now conditional months in prison.