Guyanese woman, Canadian held with card-making devices

Jun 08, 2020 News

Trinidad (Loops News)- Police have charged a Canadian man and a Guyanese woman with trafficking counterfeit cards and having card-making equipment.

From left: Canadian national Kingson Yogonathan and Guyanese national Geeta Mohabir were charged due to appear in court on charges of making counterfeit cards and possessing card-making equipment.
(Photos courtesy the TTPS).

In a statement, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) said officers of the Fraud Squad’s ABM Task Force have been investigating the case for weeks.
The TTPS said 30-year-old Kingson Yogonathan of Pine Place, Mausica, and 27-year-old Geeta Mohabir, a Guyanese national of the same address, were due to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate on Monday June 8, 2020, charged with trafficking counterfeit cards and possession of card-making equipment.
Kingson Yogonathan, 30, a Canadian of Pine Place, Mausica, was charged with two counts of trafficking in counterfeit cards and one count of possession of card-making equipment, while Geeta Mohabir, 27, a Guyanese national, of the same address, was charged with one count of possession of card-making equipment and one count of trafficking in counterfeit cards.
The two were held by officers of the ABM Task Force, during an anti-crime exercise conducted in the Northern and Central Divisions between Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 5.00 pm and Friday June 5, 2020 at 12:40 am.
During the exercise, officers went to an apartment at Pine Place, Mausica, where they observed a male suspect leaving the premises in a motor vehicle.
The car was intercepted and the man searched, which resulted in four counterfeit cards, along with several ATM receipts, being found hidden in his left shoe.
A further search of the apartment resulted in one bulletproof vest, a red dot scope, a quantity of card skimming equipment and a quantity of counterfeit cards being found and seized. A female suspect who lives at the address was also detained in connection with the finds.
Yogonathan and Mohabir were charged with the offences by PC Solozano, of the ABM Task Force on Saturday June 6, 2020.

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