BY JONIQUE GAYNOR, Staff Reporter
A CUBAN CHARGED with forgery, uttering false documents and breaching the Bail Act, must pay $500,000 in fines and will be deported.
José Carlos De-Moya Hernandez, 19, first appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court to answer to charges of forgery and uttering false documents. The charges came after Hernandez was held at the Norman Manley International Airport attempting to board a U.S. Airways flight to Fort Lauderdale. He was arrested after the British passport he issued in the name, Marlon Antonio Garcia, was found to be false. Investigations revealed that the biographical data page was substituted.
Hernandez was scheduled to appear in court on November 22. He however did not attend and a warrant was issued.
Hernandez then made a second attempt to travel to the U.S. on December 1. This time he attempted to board a Spirit Airlines flight, again to Fort Lauderdale, and tendered a British passport under the name Manuel Roberto Gomez. Close inspection of the passport revealed the original picture was replaced. Officers on the scene recognised Hernandez as the same person who was arrested two weeks earlier for the same offence.
Hernandez, at first, pleaded guilty to only two offences, but later confessed to all.
His mother, who served as a translator, broke down in tears when RM Sarah Thomson-James handed down the sentence, especially since his lawyer requested that he not be deported.
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