Latest update November 29th, 2024 1:00 AM
Santo Domingan with false US passport remanded
Kelpin Espinal being escorted to court
A native from the Dominican Republic, who was found in possession of a false US passport by local immigrant authorities, when he attempted to use it to travel to Suriname, was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Judy Latchman for uttering a forged document.
The charge states that on Friday August 31 at Moleson Creek, Springlands, Kelpin Vilmidir Espinal presented a United States of America passport in the name of Jerome Amberley, to an immigration officer in an attempt to enter Suriname. The passport also bore a stamp which implied that it (the stamp) was issued by an immigration officer at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.
However the bogus passport was detected and the officers later discovered that the immigration stamp affixed to it had been forged.
Espinal was not permitted to plead to the charge when appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
His attorney Paul Fung-A-Fat, made a request for bail and stated that his client knows very little English, but has indicated that he is innocent of the charge. The lawyer further said that Espinal had been previously stamped in by immigration authorities when he traveled from Suriname to Guyana.
However prosecutor Gordon Mansfield asked that the bail be refused as the defendant is likely flee the country since he does not have a local address and further has no ties to Guyana.
The magistrate then ruled that the accused will remain in custody and return to court today.
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