Extortion charges.

A paramedic has been charged in connection with a plot to extort $25 million from Hollywood star John Travolta after the death of the actor's son, a senior police official announced. Paramedic Tarino Lightbourne was arraigned on charges of extortion and conspiracy to extort, said the Senior Assistant Commissioner, Marvin Dames. Although details of the alleged plot were unclear, Dames said Lightbourne was accused of having a "document" which he was using "to extort a substantial sum of monies from the victim, Mr Travolta." Police earlier said that Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston filed a complaint after they were approached by someone claiming to have photographs of their 16-year-old son Jett, who died on January 2 at the family's vacation house in Grand Bahama. On Monday however Danes denied reports of compromising photographs. A female lawmaker, Pleasant Bridgewater, was charged on Friday with two counts of abatement to extort and conspiracy to extort, then released on $40,000 bail. Police on Friday also briefly detained Obediah Wilchcombe, a member of parliament and former tourism minister, but released him without charges. Bahamas officials who conducted an autopsy on Jett Travolta said the teen died of a seizure and that his body showed no signs of head trauma. The autopsy results appeared to contradict statements from the boy's family and island police that he had hit his head in the bathroom. Jett was the only son of 54-year-old film star Travolta and Preston, 46. The couple also have an eight-year-old daughter, Ella. Jett was last seen on New Year's Day when he went to use the bathroom at the family's residence at the Old Bahama Bay Resort on Grand Bahama island. He was found around 10am the next morning unconscious in the bathroom. Jett Travolta had a history of seizures since he was a toddler. But his father denied reports that his son was autistic.

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