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St Catherine driver charged for stealing fuel

Published:Tuesday | February 6, 2024 | 5:20 PM

The Linstead police in St Catherine have charged a truck driver with simple larceny after he was held selling diesel fuel from a vehicle that he operates. 

He is 40-year-old John Whitely, from Lluidas Vale in the parish. 

Whitely is to appear in the St Catherine Parish Court on Wednesday. 

He was reportedly under surveillance when he was nabbed at a garage on February 1 in Heathfield district near Linstead

- Rasbert Turner

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