Keisha McIntosh Pleads Not Guilty To Blackmail & Impersonating A Police Officer
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By Alric Lindsay
Keisha Keren McIntosh appeared in the Grand Court yesterday, May 30, 2025, to hear allegations of impersonating a police officer and blackmail. She pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Impersonating a police officer
The offence of impersonating a police officer is covered under section 99 of the Penal Code. This states:
Impersonating public officers
99. A person who — (a) personates any person employed in the public service on occasion when the latter is required to do any act or attend in any place by virtue of that person’s employment; or
(b) falsely represents themselves to be a person employed in the public service and assumes to do an act or attend in any place for the purpose of doing any act by virtue of such employment, commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for four years.
It was alleged in court that, on October 31, 2023, McIntosh contacted Debbie Alicia Brown and falsely represented herself as a police officer, pretending to resolve a dispute.
Blackmail
Regarding the alleged blackmail, McIntosh is charged under section 259 of the Penal Code. This states:
Blackmail
259. (1) A person who, with a view to gain for themselves or another or with intent to cause loss to another, makes any unwarranted demand with menaces; and for this purpose a demand with menaces is unwarranted unless the person making it does so in the belief — (a) that that person has reasonable grounds for making the demand; and (b) that the use of the menaces is a proper means of enforcing the demand, commits the offence of blackmail and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
(2) The nature of the act or omission is immaterial, and it is also immaterial whether the menaces relate to action to be taken by the person making the demand.
In this case, it is alleged that McIntosh, to gain financially, made an unwarranted demand of $500. McIntosh denied the allegation.
McIntosh will now face trial in October 2025.
