A po­lice sergeant with 25 years’ ex­pe­ri­ence in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice yes­ter­day ap­peared in court charged with as­sault­ing a 75-year-old busi­ness­man yes­ter­day.

Sgt. Vaughn Wal­dropt ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Dubay in the San­gre Grande First Mag­is­trate’s Court. How­ev­er, the mat­ter was post­poned to May 3.

Wal­dropt was ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau, who act­ed on a re­port sent to them by Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith of an al­leged as­sault in­volv­ing an of­fi­cer which took place on No­vem­ber 14, 2018. Af­ter the in­ves­ti­ga­tion was com­plet­ed the of­fi­cers sought ad­vice from the Act­ing Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tion Joan Hon­ore-Paul.

Wal­dropt, who last worked at La Hor­quet­ta Po­lice Sta­tion, was ar­rest­ed on April 5 at his San­gre Grande home by a par­ty of of­fi­cers from the PSB, af­ter Sgt Dionne Hunte is­sued a war­rant for his ar­rest. Wal­dropt was charged for the of­fence of un­law­ful­ly as­sault­ing and beat­ing the busi­ness­man.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was led by act­ing ACP To­taram Dookhie and in­clud­ed In­sp Sheri­don Hills, Sgt Cleve Grey, Cpl Ran­dall Rod­ney and Cpl Dar­ren Khan.