Lottery scammer gets five-year prison sentence

A lottery scammer, who on Tuesday pleaded guilty in court, was sentenced to five years in prison, at hard labour.

Thirty-four year-old Linton Wallace, of  Jubilee in Cambridge, St. James appeared in the St. Elizabeth Circuit Court to answer charges under the Law Reform (Fraudulent Transactions) (Special Provisions) Act.

He was arrested on August 15 last year during a police operation on the Crawford main road in St. Elizabeth.

During that operation, the vehicle in which he was travelling was searched, and a bag, belonging to Wallace, was found to contain several documents and information relating to persons in the US.

Wallace was charged two days later.

Under the Act. which took effect in March, 2013, one of the offences – that of obtaining property by false pretence, etc., the prescribed penalty is a fine or imprisonment “not exceeding twenty years or both such fine and imprisonment.”

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