Spanish Town Mayor Norman Scott has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and malicious destruction of property.

This follows  an  incident at a polling station in St Elizabeth on election day  September 03.

Reports from the Black River Police are that at about midday , 66 year old Scott  who was contesting the  South East St Elizabeth seat for the People’s National Party , PNP , visited the polling station and stayed a little longer than the allotted time.

Police say an agent’s attempt to inform him that his allotted  time at the facility was up , resulted in a commotion.

It’s reported that another agent intervened to quell the uproar and was allegedly  struck to the face by Scott, before his  security detail removed him from the location.

Following the incident, a report was made to the police and an investigation launched into the matter.

Summons for the offences were formally served on the Mayor today .

He is scheduled to appear in the Santa Cruz Parish Court on Monday, October 13.