KINGSTON, Jamaica – Dancehall artiste Kiprich was charged after a question and answer session by members of the St Catherine North police on Monday night.

He was granted station bail and released.

The Telephone Ting deejay, whose real name is Marlon Plunkett, was charged under section 18A of the offences against the person act, which deals with the ‘use of audio, visual or audiovisual communication to promote criminal activity’.

“The St Catherine North police questioned him, he was charged and granted station bail. Mr Plunkett maintained his innocence, he was not involved in any gang activity, and he was not inciting violence in any state or form. We will challenge the allegations,” a confident Patrick Peterkin, the attorney-at-law representing Kiprich, told Observer Online.

Kiprich reportedly did a One Order dubplate which his management team said was ‘spliced and changed’ to express more inflammatory language than was originally intended.

The deejay did the custom-order dubplate for a foreign-based selector in the wake of the death of alleged One Order Gang leader Othniel “Thickman” Lobban, who police say was a key figure in Jamaica’s criminal underworld with influence in several sections of the island.

Lobban was killed in an alleged shootout with cops in Six Miles in the St Andrew area.

Kiprich is set to appear to answer to the charge in the St. Catherine parish court on February 21.

Kiprich was among several individuals who were listed as persons of interest by St Catherine North police last Friday.

READ:Dancehall artiste Kiprich among men listed as persons of interest by St Catherine North police

– Claude Mills