Fraudster gets nine months

A 42-year-old man who admitted to two fraud charges will spend the next nine months at Dodds.

Marston Owen Mascoll, of Nelson Street, St Michael was sentenced today when he appeared before Magistrate Douglas Frederick in the No. 1 District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court.

He pleaded guilty to uttering a forged CIBC FirstCAribbean International Bank (Barbados) Limited cheque to Savings Plus Supermarket payable to O’Brian Fred Pollard and drawn from the account of the National Insurance Scheme for $975.66. He also admitted trying to obtain from the same supermarket groceries and money via the same forged cheque on May 31 .

Mascoll was sentenced to nine months on each offence, which will run concurrently.