David 'Mavado' Brooks was last week granted $200,000 bail

Dancehall artiste David 'Mavado' Brooks was last week granted $200,000 bail when he appeared in the High Court Division of the Gun Court on shooting with intent and illegal possession of firearm charges.



Mavado... arrested and charged with two counts of shooting with intent and illegal possession of a firearm
Brooks was ordered by Justice Donald McIntosh to surrender his travel documents and report daily to the nearest police station.The popular DJ was arrested and charged with two counts of shooting with intent and illegal possession of a firearm after he turned up at the Major Investigation Task Force Kingston office on Tuesday for questioning regarding a shooting incident along Mannings Hill Road in July last year.Two persons were injured in that incident. Mavado had just returned from the United Kingdom. The police said that the shootings were related to an ongoing gang feud in Cassava Piece, Constant Spring.Brooks, dressed in a grey suite and sporting plaited hair, was greeted by a crush of excited supporters who quickly hugged and surrounded him after he left the King Street Kingston court lockup. He was later whisked away in a waiting motor vehicle to the chant of "Mavado".Antoinette Haughton-Cardenas told the Observer yesterday that her client was innocent of the charges laid against him and that he was not even in the area when the incident occurred.
"My client knows nothing about this matter. He has no gun; has never carried a gun and has never shot at anyone. He's a high-profile man and whose name is easy to call," she said
Brooks said through his attorney Friday that he did not come to injure anyone (but) to spread love and urged his fans to "keep the faith".
This is not Mavado's first run-in with the law. In 2006, the deejay was charged with two counts of wounding, assaulting police and resisting arrest after an altercation at the Constant Spring Police Station in which he was injured. Last January he was arrested and charged with possession of ganja after being caught with the illicit drugs while the police were on a raid in his Cassava Piece community