A 37-year-old Ari­ma man who was charged with ob­tain­ing $35,000 by false pre­tences was grant­ed $55,000 bail with a sure­ty on Thurs­day by a Jus­tice of the Peace.

Lind­say Whiskey of Pin­to, Ari­ma, was ar­rest­ed and charged on Sep­tem­ber 22 by PC Qua­sie Thomas of the Fraud Squad.

The ac­cused is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trate on Oc­to­ber 21, 2022 to an­swer the charge.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, on March 11, 2017, a man al­leged­ly paid a male sus­pect $35,000 which rep­re­sent­ed full pay­ment for the pur­chase of a Toy­ota Corol­la mo­tor ve­hi­cle af­ter he was led to be­lieve that the ve­hi­cle was free from all en­cum­brances.

How­ev­er, it was learnt that the ve­hi­cle was sub­ject to a loan fa­cil­i­ty and was re­pos­sessed.

Po­lice were told ef­forts made by the buy­er to get a re­fund from the sus­pect proved fu­tile.

A re­port was sub­se­quent­ly made to the Fraud Squad and a team of of­fi­cers led by In­sp Smith and PC Mo­hammed con­duct­ed fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

The sus­pect was then ar­rest­ed and charged with the of­fence.