Man Who Gave Police A Fake Name On His “Birthday Night” Fined & Handed A Conditional Discharge

By Alric Lindsay

A young man who told police his name was “Keeze Coke” and claimed he was out celebrating his birthday has been given a six‑month conditional discharge, the Chief Magistrate putting his behaviour down to “being under the influence of spirits.”

Javier Zachary McKenzie, 25, pled guilty in the Summary Court today, July 30, 2026, to providing a false name to a police officer, contrary to section 30 of the Police Act, on May 11, 2025.

Outlining the facts, Crown Counsel for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions said a police officer — PC Jackson — and a colleague had responded to a report of a single‑vehicle accident in the Boatswain Bay area of West Bay. McKenzie was sitting in the passenger seat of the car, with his uncle said to be a short distance away.

When the officers asked McKenzie his name, DPP Crown Counsel said, he gave them a false name — “Keeze Coke” — and a false date of birth, putting his year of birth as July 18, 1989 (which would have made him decades older than his 25 years). He was then placed in the police service vehicle — but ran off from it and left the scene. He was later found on another street, at which time he told the officers he was sorry and gave them his real name. He was arrested.

For the defence, Amelia Fosuhene said her client had been out celebrating his birthday and had, “very foolishly” and “in high spirits,” given the officers the wrong details, treating it — wrongly — as a bit of a joke. She stressed that McKenzie was a passenger, not the driver, and questioned what basis the officers had had to order a passenger out of the car in the first place. She asked the court for leniency, noting that McKenzie is 25, has no previous convictions, and had been left stressed by a case that had dragged on for the best part of a year.

The Chief Magistrate accepted that the incident came down to youth, high spirits and drink. Telling McKenzie that when “a person of authority asks your question” — he must answer honestly. She gave him a conditional discharge of six months, saying that if he stays out of trouble for that period, no conviction will be recorded. She also ordered him to pay costs to the Crown of $400 (or four weeks’ imprisonment in default), to be paid by 28 August.