Five individuals who pleaded guilty to breaches of the Law Reform (Fraudulent Transactions) (Special Provisions) Act in May, 2016 were sentenced last Friday.
Of the five, who were all charged with possession of identity information, Steven Ricketts, a 33-year-old construction worker of Williamsfield, Westmoreland, received the highest fine.
He was ordered to pay J$550,000 or serve 18 months imprisonment at hard labour. Another Williamsfield resident, 25-year-old farmer Romeo Campbell, was sentenced to pay J$300,000 or serve 18 months in prison at hard labour.
Meanwhile, Onick Clarke, Travoy Taylor and Kenroy Rhoden, all of Westmoreland addresses, were each slapped with a fine of J$250,000 or 12 months imprisonment at hard labour.
In addition to the fines, all were given an additional probationary sentence. Ricketts, Campbell, Taylor, and Rhoden were sentenced to four years imprisonment at hard labour suspended for three years, while Clarke was sentenced to two years imprisonment at hard labour suspended for two years. This means that if the men commit any offence within a three- or two- year period, respectively, they will then be imprisoned for four or two years, respectively.
Dis scamming ting reach far and wide. I think the scammers have a way of stealing contact info from ppl’s WhatsApp accout contacts.
their fine should have been much more in addition to jail time J550,000 is nothing to them. They probably made that in a week
I dont support scamming but this dont make sense you cannot send a person to jail because you see them with a piece of paper with name and phone numbers that is not actual scamming,police should stop being lazy and catch them in the act with good detective work, those guys need a good lawyer
Dis a real setup…. so dem tink seh it hard fi dem scammers yah cum up wid $500,000? A joke ting dis…