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Woman fraudster on the run jailed for two years ‘in absentia’

Apr 21, 2013 News

 

 

A woman who decided to plan a scheme to fleece her one time nephew-in-law is now on the run and an arrested warrant issued for her arrest after she was jailed in her absence for obtaining money by fraud.
The fraudster, Stacy Ross, 23, of No 41 Village and of Lot 5 Weldaad, West Coast Berbice, was charged with between Thursday April 28 and Thursday November 3, 2011 she obtained from Harley Linger, a caretaker at the Guyana Teachers Union, New Amsterdam, the sum of $200,000, claiming to be in a position to secure a house lot for him at the Glasgow Housing Scheme East Bank Berbice.
She was found guilty by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court and sentenced to two years in jail. However during the trial the woman who was on bail, had stopped attending court and her bail was escheated.
She was not in court when the verdict was announced and an arrest warrant was issued for her arrest and incarceration.
The man, during the trial, testified that he knew the woman who used to live with his uncle. He stated that during March 2010 she contacted him, asking him if he is interested in acquiring a house lot at the Glasgow Housing Scheme.
After he answered in the affirmative she told him that she was in a position to acquire one for him at the cost of $200,000. She told him that he must have an account at Scotia Bank where the money was to be deposited, which he hadn’t.
The woman then told him that she had an account at the bank, and he can acquire the money and give her to put in her account to begin the process.
The man told the court that he subsequently acquired the money from his other accounts and gave to the woman. During the same November 2011 he received a call telling him that a small loan has been approved at Scotia Bank in Georgetown and that he must visit to collect same. He stated that when he visited the bank he learnt that the information was false.
He subsequently received another call from the woman telling him that the process has almost been completed and that he must gave her his Republic Bank and NBS bank account numbers and $30,000. He must also give her his particulars so that she could look after his birth certificate also.  She promised to accompany him to the two banks to complete the transactions.
The man said he became suspicious and informed the police who accompanied him to the Republic Bank in New Amsterdam and acting on description provided, arrested the woman who was waiting in the precincts of the bank.
She was subsequently taken into custody where she denied having an arrangement with Linger. She was subsequently charged.

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