BELIZE CITY MAN FACES JUDGE IN SAN PEDRO

March 09, 2010

A Belize City man was arrested by San Pedro Police after he tried to cash a forged cheque at one of banks on the island. Just before one o’clock on Friday afternoon, acting on information received, San Pedro Police visited the Atlantic Bank Limited office on Pescador Drive in San Pedro where a man identified as 40-year-old Orion Paul Vernon of a Regent Street West address in Belize City attempted to cash a cheque. The cheque bearing serial number 2-1-9-3-5-9 was made out in the amount of Belize $53,000 and was from the Belize Food Supplies Company bank account. As a result, police closed in on Vernon and he was apprehended and charged for the crime of Forgery. Vernon was arraigned today at the San Pedro Magistrate Court before Magistrate Emerson Banner. Magistrate Banner read a single charge of forgery and no plea was taken since the matter is an indictable Vernon was offered bail. Prosecutor Sergeant John Sanchez objected to bail on two grounds. The first grounds for objection were that Vernon was granted bail for similar charges in the Belize City Magistrate Court. Sergeant Sanchez told the court that Vernon failed to appear in the Belize City Magistrate Court on the date of his adjournment and the court issued a bench warrant for his arrest. The second ground for objection was the fact that the investigation is still ongoing and it is likely that Vernon would interfere with the witness. Magistrate Banner upheld the prosecutor’s objection to bail and Vernon was remanded to the Hattieville Prison until his next court date scheduled for April 6th at the San Pedro Magistrate Court. According to police, they were on the lookout for Vernon and had set up an operation since he is allegedly implicated in similar activities in other parts of the country.

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