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60-year-old faces 9 charges for forged DemBank cheques
-targetted Kings Jewellery, Empire Shopping Plaza
A 60-year-old woman who attempted to use several forged Demerara Bank cheques including at a
Judy Harmon being led to the holding area.
prominent jewelry establishment, has been remanded to jail.
Sixty-year-old Judy Ann Harmon appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday to answer nine charges of forgery and conspiracy.
The elderly resident of Lot 157 Campbellville Housing Scheme is accused of forging false documents, uttering same false documents and conspiring to commit a felony.
Charges against the accused indicated that she along with others conspired to use forged managers’ cheques purported to be issued by Demerara bank to obtain articles from persons and businesses.
Harmon was not required to plead to the indictable offence.
The court heard that on November 15th, Harmon forged a cheque purported to be from the Demerara Bank which she took to Nirmala Basdeo in an effort to obtain stainless steel household items. These included a gas stove, refrigerator and television set among other items, all amounting to $863,000.
Harmon also on November 15th, in an effort to uplift articles from Empire Shopping Plaza, allegedly issued a forged cheque, purportedly from Demerara Bank, to Abdool Aziz.
On November 22nd, the woman again allegedly took another forged cheque to Kings Jewellery World where she tried to uplift gold jewelry in the sum of $1,736,000 from Priya Singh.
The woman’s charges continued that on November 15th, with the intent to defraud Basdeo, Aziz and Singh, she uttered forged documents knowing that the said documents were falsely obtained. She is accused of between November 1 and 15, November 14 and 15 and November 22 respectively, to have conspired with persons unknown to commit a felony by falsely obtaining articles from the three persons mentioned in the charge.
The prosecutor noted that initially, the address given by the woman, when investigated, led to a small room.
She was refused bail.
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