ELECTRICIAN CHARGED WITH FRAUDULENT CONVERSION
Detectives assigned to the Clarendon Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) have charged an electrician with Obtaining Money by False Pretence and Fraudulent Conversion following an incident between Saturday, September 28, 2024, and August 2025.
Charged is 24-year-old Jarvis Johnson of Midway Avenue, May Pen, Clarendon.
Reports from the May Pen CIB are that Johnson, who was in a relationship with the complainant, presented a business idea to her and requested a loan to purchase trucks for the venture. She agreed and transferred a total of $43,162 USD and $21,184,108 JMD to Johnson over the course of a few months. The complainant later became suspicious and requested to see proof that the trucks were purchased, which Johnson could not provide.
She later made a report to the police, and Jonson was arrested during a targeted operation. He was charged on Saturday, August 30.
Johnson is set to appear before the May Pen Parish Court on Monday, September 08.
