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HOW CAN WE SOLVE CRIME WITH SENTENCES LIKE THESE.. NOW WE CAN SEE THAT WE HAVE UNIVERSITY IN JAMAICA THAT ARE TURNING OUT CRIMINALS.. AND THEY JUST GET A SLAP ON THE RIST!...
UWI student receives suspended sentence for cyber fraud
Wednesday, 06 January 2010
A 23-year-old University of the West Indies student who was charged with cyber-fraud in October last year was Tuesday given a two year suspended sentence when he appeared in the Half Way Tree Criminal Court.
Dwayne Nelson pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to defraud and one count of obtaining money by false pretense.
Mr. Nelson, a final year student, who was reading for a Banking degree at the time of his arrest, conspired with others to defraud $680,000 from credit card holders.
Investigators
say his cronies, who are based in Montego Bay, would provide him with the stolen credit card numbers.
He would use a computer to move money from the credit cards to his University account.
Mr. Nelson would then withdraw the money which he shared with his conspirators.
Despite the severity of the crime, with much pleading from his attorney, Stewart Stephenson, Magistrate Judith Pusey handed down a 18 month sentence suspended for two years.
Mr. Nelson, who is also a teacher by training, repaid the $680,000 to the University.
Having faced disciplinary action from the University, he will have to sit out one year of school.
2 days ago, 6:47:53 PM
WASP
HOW CAN WE SOLVE CRIME WITH SENTENCES LIKE THESE.. NOW WE CAN SEE THAT WE HAVE UNIVERSITY IN JAMAICA THAT ARE TURNING OUT CRIMINALS.. AND THEY JUST GET A SLAP ON THE RIST!...
UWI student receives suspended sentence for cyber fraud
Wednesday, 06 January 2010
A 23-year-old University of the West Indies student who was charged with cyber-fraud in October last year was Tuesday given a two year suspended sentence when he appeared in the Half Way Tree Criminal Court.
Dwayne Nelson pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to defraud and one count of obtaining money by false pretense.
Mr. Nelson, a final year student, who was reading for a Banking degree at the time of his arrest, conspired with others to defraud $680,000 from credit card holders.
Investigators
say his cronies, who are based in Montego Bay, would provide him with the stolen credit card numbers.
He would use a computer to move money from the credit cards to his University account.
Mr. Nelson would then withdraw the money which he shared with his conspirators.
Despite the severity of the crime, with much pleading from his attorney, Stewart Stephenson, Magistrate Judith Pusey handed down a 18 month sentence suspended for two years.
Mr. Nelson, who is also a teacher by training, repaid the $680,000 to the University.
Having faced disciplinary action from the University, he will have to sit out one year of school.
2 days ago, 6:47:53 PM
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