Detectives attached to the Major Organised and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) have arrested and charged eight more persons in connection with a lottery scam scheme based in Western Jamaica.
According to police reports, eight persons were charged, taking the total number to eighteen following simultaneous operations carried out in the communities of Farm Heights and Farm Hills in St James; Cornwall Mountain, Shrewsbury Logwood and Bethel Town in Westmoreland as well as Alderton and McDowell District in St Ann.
Cops have identified the following persons as being implicated in the fraudulent scheme:
Vennecia Dixon, Ecardo Kelly, Alvin Kelly, Shereika Kelly, Omeika Thomas, Nicola Poyser, Ishmael Kelly, Davion Thomas, Ray Onfroy, Doreen Williams, Andrea Williams, Patsy Ferrigon, Christopher Steer, Honel Frame, Trishana Dove, Nicky-Ann Kelphat, Courtney Wallace, and Triston Grant.
Investigators say they raided the premises of the accused persons where they recovered documents containing identity information of individuals as well as other lottery scamming paraphernalia.
All persons involved were subsequently charged with breaches of the Law Reform (Fraudulent Transactions) (Special Provisions) Act, 2013.
Seventeen of the accused were offered bail in the sum of $400,000 with the exception of Grant who was remanded into police custody.
