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Court Reporter
A SECURITY guard who posed as a police officer will have to do 105 hours of community service for extorting two people of US$630 and will escape jail if he pays back the money.Chitungwiza magistrate Mr Kudakwashe Jarabini slapped Edwin Nyoni (35) of Riverside with a nine-month jail term on his own plea to two counts of extortion and impersonation.
Three months of his sentence were suspended for five years. The other three months were set aside on condition of restituting US$380 and US$250 to Rodney Chakamanga (28) and Levison Chimwikungu (27) of the same location of respectively.
The remaining three months were commuted to community service at Seke Teachers’ College.
Charges against Nyoni arose early this month when he approached the pair masquerading as a police officer and told them that he was investigating a case of theft reported to him by a man only identified as Joseph.
This was after the pair had sold a Samsung Galaxy cellphone to Joseph who returned it after failing to operate it.
Peter Tanyanyiwa
Online Reporter