Jef­frey Stan­ley a 67-year-old pen­sion­er from Diego Mar­tin has been charged with ob­tain­ing $30,000 by false pre­tences af­ter al­leged­ly at­tempt­ing to sell a ve­hi­cle for which he was not the reg­is­tered own­er. He was grant­ed $70,000 bail by Jus­tice of the Peace, Stephen Young.  

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, a vic­tim paid the sum of cash to a man, rep­re­sent­ing a down pay­ment to­wards the pur­chase of a ve­hi­cle, with the agree­ment that the ve­hi­cle would be de­liv­ered with­in two months of the pay­ment.  

The vic­tim sub­se­quent­ly learned that the ve­hi­cle was not for sale by the reg­is­tered own­er and the ‘sell­er’ had no au­tho­riza­tion to con­duct any trans­ac­tions on the own­er’s be­half.  

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, all at­tempts to ob­tain a re­fund proved fu­tile. In­ves­ti­ga­tions were su­per­vised by Snr. Supt. Ar­let Groome, and In­sp. Thomas of the Fraud Squad.  

On Wednes­day 3rd Au­gust, 2022, by Cpl. (Ag.) Woodroffe of the Fraud Squad ar­rest­ed and charged the ac­cused in con­nec­tion with the mat­ter. STAN­LEY is sched­uled to ap­pear at the Port of Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court on Au­gust 30th 2022.