A man who tried to register a truck using two phoney customs vehicle information forms has been fined $3,000 or six months in prison.
Maceo Maurice Seymour, of Durham Street, presented the bogus documents for a 2006 Chevrolet Silverado to an inspector at the Road Traffic Department on April 7, 2021.
Jasonique Fitzgerald took those documents to her supervisor, Rex Adderley, a senior officer at the department.
Adderley testified that he contacted customs investigations officer Trevor Rolle after noticing that both documents appeared to be originals. The documents claimed that Lamont Rahming imported the truck.
Based on the response that he got from Rolle, police were called in.
Sergeant 2675 Strachan, who works at the Stolen Vehicle Sections at CID, said he went to the Road Traffic Department along with Constable 3345 David Minus.
They escorted Seymour to CID, where he was arrested for attempted fraud, possession of forged documents, and uttering forged documents.
Strachan said that Seymour told him that Rahming had sent him to license the car.
In his testimony, Seymour said that he was doing a favor for Rahming. According to him, Rahming’s father had died a few weeks before the incident.
When he went to Rahming’s home, he met him clearing cars from his father’s mechanic shop. That’s when Rahming allegedly asked him to license the vehicle.
Magistrate Samuel McKinney said that it was obvious that the documents were forgeries due to the weight of the paper and evidence of over-writing.
He told Seymour that his co-defendant, Rahming, had pleaded guilty at first instance and was fined $500 or three months.
However, he told Seymour that he would face a greater penalty because he took the case to trial.
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