Three sentenced for lottery scam involvement

Three persons including a minor have been sentenced after pleading guilty to being involved in the lottery scam.

Tafarie Haddad,19 and Denise Sutherland,36, both unemployed of  Santa Cruz in the southern parish of St. Elizabeth pleaded guilty to breaching the Law Reform (Fraudulent Transactions) (Special Provisions) Act and sentenced to two and three years hard labour respectively.

The minor was sentenced to three years probation for Knowingly Possessing Identity Information.

They were sentenced in the St. Elizabeth Circuit Court on Monday.

They were arrested on November 29 last year after the police searched premises in Santa Cruz.

A book containing names, addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers of  persons living in the US along with Western Union and MoneyGram receipts were found.

Eleven lottery scammers have been convicted in St. Elizabeth since last month.

source: rjrnews