Trinis, Jamaican fined $2M in credit card scam

Three Trinidadians and a Jamaican busted in a credit card scam against the Marriott Courtyard Hotel in New Kingston were fined a total of $2,110,000 Friday in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court.

The men were fined after making restitution of $450,000 to the hotel for food purchased and two rooms they booked with the fake credit cards on May 30.

The fine also followed the men pleading guilty before Senior Parish Judge Judith Pusey, who ordered the deportation of the Trinidadians.

The Jamaican convict is Chad Williams, while the Trinidadians are Akil Sullivan, Rohan McKain and Rhienaldo Dick.

Sullivan is of a Valsayn address in Trinidad, McKain is of 11 St Cyr Street, in Canaan Tobago and Dick is from Barataria in Trinidad.

The men used 13 fake Nova Scotia visa credit cards in the name of ‘Alan Kastelic’ to make purchases at the hotel and pay for rooms there.

Checks by hotel staff revealed that the cards were fake.

The men were subsequently arrested by the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch (C-TOC) of the police force.

Reports were that when their rooms were searched, numerous fake credit cards were discovered in a garbage bin.