Kimoni Harris, Staff Reporter

An American deportee pleaded guilty in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Thursday to charges of conspiracy to deceive and uttering of false documents.

Gary Bowler, who was making an attempt on April 22 to leave the island for Antigua, was caught at the Norman Manley International when he turned in false documents and an illegally issued passport.

When RM Glen Brown asked the accused where he got the illegal passport, he told the court that he got it through someone he paid $40,000. Bowler, who was deported from the United States in 2004, told the court that, "an immigration officer told me to get the passport issued in another person's name and that way I could travel, however I got caught and the documents were seized."

For pleading guilty, RM Glen Brown was lenient towards the accused and admonished the charges of conspiracy to deceive and for uttering false documents he was fined $20,000 or three months in prison.