VETERAN OLD SCHOOL DEEJAY ADMIRAL BAILEY ARRESTED FOR FRAUD

Old school dancehall artiste Glendon Bailey, popularly known as Admiral Bailey is now slapped with several fraud charges after he went to the Passport Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) office and attempted to renew a passport which posed the identity of a Michael George Sullivan.

It wasn’t long before officials from PICA discovered his true identity and arrested him on the following charges:
1. Two counts of uttering forged documents
2. Two counts of obtaining passport by false pretence
3. Two counts of possession of forged documents
4. One count of attempting to obtain a passport by false pretence
5. One count of conspiracy to defraud

Tom Tavares-Finson, attorney-at-law for Jamaican deejay Glendon ‘Admiral’ Bailey says his client is a good man and that fraud-related charges brought against him are a misunderstanding.

Tavares-Finson said, “Admiral Bailey is someone who is highly regarded by many members of society and not as someone who has been associated with any criminality or even the hint of criminality.”

He said instead, his client has made an effort to keep himself out of any difficulty with the law.

Tavares-Finson explained that Bailey is “a sort of crossover artiste between the genre of deejay music and calypso” and so a lot of people were shocked that the news came out that he has been charged for fraud.

The attorney left the impression that the name his client attempted to use, Michael George Sullivan, was one he has been using for a number of years now.

He said: “I indicated that the travel documents that they are alleging are fraudulent are documents that he has been using for over 25 years.”

“I am satisfied that when the matter comes before the court we will be able to offer an explanation…”.