Got TIPS or BREAKING NEWS? Please call 1-284-442-8000 direct/can also WhatsApp same number or Email ALL news to:newsvino@outlook.com;                               ads call 1-284-440-6666

Man arrested, jailed on USVI for delivering worthless cheques

Ted Williams is accused of signing an agreement with a real estate company to purchase property, and wrote cheques that were worthless. Photo: VIC
VI CONSORTIUM

FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- Police in the US Virgin Islands arrested a man on Monday October 10, 2016 and charged him with fraud after he allegedly delivered worthless cheques in an attempt to attain real property, [US] Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) Public Information Officer Glen Dratte announced via press release.

According to Mr Dratte, citing a police report, the suspect, Ted Williams, signed an agreement with a real estate company to purchase property, and wrote cheques in July 2015 for $200, 000; September 2015 for $350,000; and May 2016 for $400,000.

The realtor deposited the checks into her account and each time was informed by the bank that funds were insufficient. An investigation by detectives of the Economic Crime Unit (ECU) revealed that Mr Williams never had the funds available in the account.

Following these developments, Mr Williams was placed under arrest by ECU He was then taken to the VIPD’s Rainbow Building in Frederiksted, where he was booked and charged.

Unable to make bail of $75,000, Mr Williams was remanded to the Golden Grove Detention Center pending his advise-of-rights hearing.

3 Responses to “Man arrested, jailed on USVI for delivering worthless cheques”



Create a comment


Submit comment

Create a comment

Submit comment
Disclaimer: Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) welcomes your thoughts, feedback, views, bloggs and opinions. However, by posting a blogg you are agreeing to post comments or bloggs that are relevant to the topic, and that are not defamatory, liable, obscene, racist, abusive, sexist, anti-Semitic, threatening, hateful or an invasion of privacy. Violators may be excluded permanently from making contributions. Please view our declaimer above this article. We thank you in advance for complying with VINO's policy.

Follow Us On

Disclaimer: All comments posted on Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) are the sole views and opinions of the commentators and or bloggers and do not in anyway represent the views and opinions of the Board of Directors, Management and Staff of Virgin Islands News Online and its parent company.