A Dominican mechanic living in Antigua and Barbuda has been found guilty of fraud and was ordered to pay $6,000 forthwith by Antiguan Magistrate Joane Walsh or face two years at Her Majesty’s Prison.
Thirty-one-year-old Michael Fredericks who is originally from Fond Cole in Dominica, admitted in court last week that he stole $6,000, which a woman entrusted to him to buy a car.
When the report was made, the woman told the police she entrusted Frederick with the money in May and he promised she would get the vehicle the following month.
She said when she later inquired about the vehicle, Fredericks gave varying excuses for not being able to deliver the car. She said that continued for several months.
This is not the first time that Frederick has been in trouble with the law.
In July, he was convicted of the same offense for carrying out the scam on another woman.
This guy is a thief, lock him up please…disgusted!
How is paying restitution in the amount of the money that was stolen a deterrent to committing fraud? He should be made to repay the money and on top of that sentenced to 5 years in prison.
We Dominicans in general were taught to live within our means.
But have can people be so naive in 2018, to leave such amount of money with someone, pending the delivery of the delivery of the merchandise in the next month. Shouldn’t that be the other way around?
I wonder when he would get caught
He did the crime therefore he must do the time
He did the crime therefore he must to the time. Shame really
They carry their dirty way everywhere they go. Stop giving Dominica and Dominicans a bad name