Tommy Lee Sparta’s legal team is furious with law enforcement officers over the leak of a photo of their client in custody.
The embarrassing photo surfaced online Monday just hours after the popular entertainer was detained.
Tommy Lee Sparta, whose real name is Leroy Russell, can be seen handcuffed wearing only a white boxers with a black handkerchief around his neck. In the viral photo, the deejay appeared to be crying.
According to Donahue Martin, they will be writing to the commissioner of police to investigate the photo and discipline the police officer(s) behind it.
“I find it very unprofessional, and we do intend to write to the relevant authorities, in particular, the commissioner of police, to ascertain why is it that this is being done while somebody is a guest of the State or in custody,” Martin said.
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The “Uncle Demon” deejay was taken in custody at the Half-Way-Tree Police Station by C-TOC officers on Saturday night.
This is the fifth time Sparta has been taken into custody in the past two years.
Sparta along with three others, were charged jointly in February 2014 with suspected breaches of the Law Reform (Fraudulent Transaction) (Special Provisions) Act, 2013. The trial was scheduled to begin last October.
In June 2017, he was questioned and subsequently released by members of the Elleston Road Police Station about a shooting in the division. In January that same year, former head of the St James Police division, Senior Superintendent Marlon Nesbeth listed the artiste as a person of interest in relation to crime in sections of Flanker in St James.
