Some 50 persons who were arrested after the police raided an illegal party on Central Avenue in May Pen, Clarendon on Sunday, have been charged with breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA).
The individuals, including several women, wer
• Conspiracy to transport criminal property into Jamaica; and
• Engaging in transactions involving criminal property.
Jarrett was subsequently offered bail in the sum of $400,000, and is scheduled to appear in the Westmoreland Parish Court on May 19.
According to a release from the Financial Investigations Division (FID) on Friday, Jarrett was a person of interest in an ongoing money laundering probe that is being conducted by the agency and the Constabulary Financial Unit (CFU).
In one instance that has been linked to Jarrett’s arrest, as far as 2011, law enforcement personnel in the United States visited the home of a victim of lottery scamming after identifying that the person fell prey to a fraudulent scheme.
A Westmoreland fisherman, Mark Watson, who is accused in the mob killing of a man in January has been released on bail.
Watson was offered $500,000 bail in the Westmoreland Parish Court, following an application by attorney Able-Don Foote yesterday.
The other accused men Delmar Cunningham, Ricardo Bailey and Triston Daley were remanded in custody.
It’s alleged that Watson and a group of men attacked the deceased, 62-year-old Delroy Grant, with a hammer, a machete and a piece of iron at his home on January 11, 2021.
The victim later died in the Cornwall Regional Hospital on January 17.
During the bail application, Foote argued that Watson was not a flight risk as he had surrendered himself to the Savanna-la-Mar police.
The accused is Almond Burke, 30, a labourer of Eltham Park in Spanish Town, St Catherine.
When the case was heard recently before Parish Judge Steve Walters, the matter was dismissed.
The submission by attorney-at-law Sheldon Campbell, claiming that the complainants failed to properly identify Burke, who was wearing a mask and cap, was upheld.
The Crown conceded that it could not mount a sound case.
Allegations are that about 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 2, 2020, a man approached three ganja farmers at Bottom Ground in Beeston Spring, Westmoreland.
The man reportedly revealed that he was part of a ganja eradication team and would be destroying their marijuana crop.