The Trini­bad artiste who was ar­rest­ed last Fri­day af­ter al­leged­ly threat­en­ing sup­port­ers of a par­tic­u­lar po­lit­i­cal par­ty, will ap­pear in court this week.

Po­lice said Bradlee Dha­naram, 35, of Agapi­to Trace, San­ta Flo­ra, is ex­pect­ed to be charged with mak­ing state­ments to in­flu­ence pub­lic opin­ion in a man­ner like­ly to be prej­u­di­cial to pub­lic safe­ty, con­trary to Reg­u­la­tion 12(a) of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, as per Le­gal No­tice No 240 is­sued un­der the State of Emer­gency.

The green light to charge was giv­en fol­low­ing con­sul­ta­tion with the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP), Roger Gas­pard, SC, on April 14.

Dha­naram was held on April 11, dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Pe­nal dis­trict by the Na­tion­al Op­er­a­tions Unit.

In the record­ing, which was one minute and 19 sec­onds long and was post­ed to so­cial me­dia on April 11, Dha­naram, who was in a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) jer­sey, was heard warn­ing, “I just in­vest in a hun­dred thou­sand tie strap. Me and my crew will be com­ing round and tie-strap alyuh mud­da ***.”

Hold­ing his hands aloft and joined at the wrists in a bound po­si­tion, the artiste went on, “Alyuh will re­al­ly be in a strong­hold the night be­fore (ex­ple­tive) elec­tion ... that alyuh cyar go out there and vote.”

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), in a state­ment, re­mind­ed mem­bers of the pub­lic that any act—ver­bal, writ­ten, or oth­er­wise—that seeks to in­cite vi­o­lence or cre­ate pub­lic pan­ic, es­pe­cial­ly in the lead-up to the Gen­er­al Elec­tion on April 28, will be met with the full ex­tent of the law. —An­na-Lisa Paul