Rescuers pulled that mom and child out of the lehigh river alive. Fox 29s dave kinchen is live in Allentown Police department tonight for us. Dave . Reporter iain, details are just now coming in to us here. Weve been in touch with investigators here at the Allentown Police depth. Heres what they can tell us right now. 19yearold mother and oneyearold baby are expected to survive. They are hospitalized at Lehigh Valley hospital in cedar crest. They are in serious condition. What were told from investigator Social Security that this happened around 1 45 p. M. A 19yearold woman was walking across the hamilton street bridge over the lehigh river and about halfway across she through her oneyearold over the bridge allegedly and there was a 52foot drop down into the water. The water was about 4 feet. Now, were told that as she dropped the baby over the ledge she climbed up and jumped in herself but then she was able to get herself to land where she passed out. Police officers got there win one
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Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes was right when he dismissed the drug charges against Ralph Joseph James since he had no jurisdiction to hear the matters.
This was the ruling of the Court of Appeal yesterday as it threw out the appeal brought by the Commissioner of Police challenging the dismissal of the Jamaican’s charges.
The court also ordered that the Crown pay $5 000 in cost to the former accused.
James, 61, a marine engineer, of No 58, Grants Avenue, Sydenham, Spanish Town, St Catherine, Jamaica, had been accused that within the limits of the island’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) established by the Marine Boundaries and Jurisdiction Act Cap 387, and within the jurisdiction of the magistrate of District “A”, he had cannabis; he had a traffickable quantity of the drug and he had it with intent to supply, on November 7, 2020. (HLE)