A Lance Cor­po­ral in the T&T Reg­i­ment, who is ac­cused of ut­ter­ing a fake aca­d­e­m­ic cer­tifi­cate, has been grant­ed $60,000 bail by a Jus­tice of the Peace.

A re­lease from the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice said Shel­don Mar­tin, 34, of Li­ons Gate, Ch­agua­nas, who has 14 years’ ser­vice, was ar­rest­ed on May 17 and charged three days lat­er by PC Legiere of the Fraud Squad White Col­lar Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion.

Mar­tin is ac­cused of forgery and ut­ter­ing of a forged doc­u­ment, name­ly a Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC).

He was grant­ed bail by Jus­tice of the Peace Stephen Young last Thurs­day. Mar­tin is ex­pect­ed to an­swer the charges at the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court on June 29.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, on April 26, 2022, a lance cor­po­ral at­tend­ed a pre-in­ter­view re­cruit­ment ex­er­cise at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment Head­quar­ters for the In­tel­li­gence Unit of the T&T De­fence Force, where he al­leged­ly ut­tered a num­ber of aca­d­e­m­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tions.

Among the doc­u­ments was a CSEC cer­tifi­cate which, up­on a ver­i­fi­ca­tion search, ap­peared spu­ri­ous. A re­port was sub­se­quent­ly made to the Fraud Squad and a probe was launched.

Fol­low­ing en­quiries, the sus­pect was ar­rest­ed and in­dict­ed with the of­fences.

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