Youth ambassador faces charges for forgery

He has the rank of Ambassador for Youth, but the long arms of the law today reached nineteen year old Kenroy Young of Regent Street, who was charged with nine offences in connection with three forged cheques when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court. Young was charged with three counts each of Possession of a False Document, Claiming Upon a Forged Document and Uttering a False Document.

Young is accused of cashing the Belize Regent Insurance Company cheques at the JL’s Quick Loan between November fifth and tenth. Two of the cheques were for two thousand, two hundred dollars and one was for one thousand, three hundred and fifty. Magistrate Tracy Sosa offered him bail of eight thousand and the case was adjourned until January fourteenth, 2009. Sharett Palma, a thirty-two year old book keeper at JL’s Quick loan, reported to police that the cheques were deposited in Atlantic Bank but were returned because the signatures on them were irregular.
Police detained Young on November fourth, when he allegedly attempted to cash a cheque for five thousand dollars at the Belize Bank on the Northern Highway.