Cops crack passport scam
AN EMPLOYEE AT the Passport Office on Constant Spring Road, Half-Way Tree, St. Andrew, was arrested recently in connection with the theft of more than 700 passports. Fraud Squad detectives charged Marleone Mitchell, a data entry clerk...
Farmer fined
WESTERN BUREAU: WAYNE THOMPSON, 33, a farmer from Manchester, who tried to leave Jamaica using a forged document was fined $150,000 after pleading guilty to two counts of uttering a forged document.
Chef sentenced for drug smuggling
WESTERN BUREAU: A NEGRIL CHEF who tried to smuggle drugs out of Jamaica to take care of his mother's debt, was sentenced to two years in prison and fined in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.
Cross-dresser to be sentenced January
SPANISH TOWN: A JUVENILE WHO pleaded guilty in the Spanish Town RM Court yesterday to driving without a driver's licence, will be sentenced in the Juvenile Court in January. The appearance of the male youth...
Cops probe link in men's murders
THE KINGSTON WESTERN police are probing the murder of two men in Torrington Park, who were killed minutes apart on Tuesday night. Dead are Kirk McPherson, 28, unemployed, from Portmore, St. Catherine and Donovan Gray, 16, from Torrington Park.
Alleged wanted man injured by police
A MAN, SAID to be wanted by the Mocho police in Clarendon, was shot and injured when police went to arrest him on Tuesday night. The Mocho police reportedly went in search of Oneil Thomas, the alleged wanted man, who reportedly fired at them.