Forged credit card case slated for January

Christopher Thomas, Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU:A man who allegedly used a forged credit card to buy $2,500 Digicel phone credit will have the matter mentioned in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court next month.

Tennyson White, who is charged with obtaining services by a forged document, will return to court on January 10, 2013, at which time representatives from the store at which the credit was purchased are expected to be in attendance.

The allegations are that, on June 20, White and another man went to a FIMI Wireless store at Westgate in Montego Bay and requested the credit to be placed on White's phone, offering a First Caribbean Visa Credit Card for the transaction. However, the card was declined.

White was asked if he wished to have the credit removed from his phone, but he declined. Checks with First Caribbean revealed that the card was fraudulent and White was arrested and charged.

In court, Resident Magistrate Sandria Wong-Small was told that the prose-cution's case file is not ready and that the store's representatives have expressed no interest in pursuing the matter further.

Attorney-at-law Morrel Beckford, who represents White, told the court that his client has since repaid the value of the phone credit to the store.

"$2,500 has since been paid to the seller of the phone card. My client did not seek to defraud anyone. In fact, the statements do not indicate that any fraud was committed," he said. "All that was said was that the phone card was not paid for."

Wong-Small ordered that a subpoena be issued for a representative from the store to come to court in January.

"Serve the subpoena that it is for a statement indicating what they plan to do," she told the investigating officer.