Sep 6 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A judge located in the Bahamas has dropped the charges against Tarino Lightbourne and Pleasant Bridgwater for extorting money from the Travolta family after the death of their sixteen year old son, Jett.

Prosecutor Neil Braithwaite stated, “The Travolta family has said that this matter has caused them unbelievable stress and pain and they wish to put this whole thing behind them,” and then submitted a motion to drop the charges. Although a jury had already been picked and a retrial was already scheduled for both ambulance driver Tarina Lightbourne, as well as his lawyer, Pleasant Bridgewater.

The two has been accused of attempting to extort 25 million dollars from the Travolta family by threatening to release privte information about the death of Jett to the public. The death occurred in January of last year at the family’s vacation home in the Bahamas.

According to ‘People’ magazine, Travolta signed a “Refusal of Treatment/Transportation” form on January 2 after his son had a fatal seizure. Bridgewater and Lightbourne threatened to tell the world of Travolta’s refusal of service, thinking it would embarrass the actor into paying millions. Instead, Travolta called their bluff and told the story himself, the way it actually happened.

Travolta had signed the waver because he initially wanted to take his son to an airstrip and fly him back to the United States for emergency treatment, but when it became clear that his son would never make the flight, the form which Travolta had signed was ignored and he and his wife accompanied their son to the local hospital in the ambulance.

In a statement to the ‘Associated Press’ Travolta said, “The long-pending status of this matter continued to take a heavy emotional toll on my family, causing us to conclude that it was finally time to put this matter behind us. Therefore, after much reflection I concluded that it was in my family’s best interest for me not to voluntarily return to the Bahamas to testify a second time at trial.” And with that, the charges were dropped.