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Saturday, July 12, 2025

No bail for Spanish

woman held with

tampered passport

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2744 days ago
20180106

A Venezue­lan woman en­gaged to mar­ry a Siparia res­i­dent was de­nied bail yes­ter­day on a charge of pos­ses­sion of a tam­pered pass­port.

Miryuris Sanchez, 28, a make-up artiste, in­sist­ed she was in­no­cent when she ap­peared be­fore San Fer­nan­do mag­is­trate Cher­ril-Anne An­toine.

Through Span­ish in­ter­preter Rachael Go­sein, the mag­is­trate ex­plained to Sanchez that even if she did not tam­per with the pass­port, just hav­ing a pass­port which was tam­pered with in her pos­ses­sion would make her guilty.

Sanchez, how­ev­er, main­tained her not guilty plea.

The charge al­leged that on De­cem­ber 14, at the Im­mi­gra­tion In­ves­tiga­tive Of­fice at Knox Street, San Fer­nan­do, she had in her pos­ses­sion a Bo­li­vian Re­pub­lic of Venezuela pass­port in her name that had been tam­pered with. She was charged by Po­lice Con­sta­ble Chat­er­am Singh.

Sanchez, a moth­er of two, said she has been stay­ing with her boyfriend and his par­ents in Siparia.

Pros­e­cu­tor Cley­on Seedan con­firmed Sanchez en­tered the coun­try legal­ly last Sep­tem­ber, but was on­ly sup­posed to stay here for a month. He said a fin­ger­print trace found no crim­i­nal record in her name.

The mag­is­trate re­fused bail be­cause she was a for­eign na­tion­al. Sanchez was re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody to reap­pear in court on Feb­ru­ary 2


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