(Jamaica Gleaner) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Lottery Scam Taskforce on Monday secured its first conviction in the Circuit Court after 21-year-old Marlon Davis of Grange Pen, Lilliput in St James, who was arrested for breaches of the Law Reform (Fraudulent Trans-actions) (Special Provi-sions) Act 2013, pleaded guilty. He will be sentenced on Friday, January 24. Reports are that on December 28, 2013, a team of officers was on special operation in Rose Hall, St James, when Davis, who was seen exiting a financial institution, began to act in a suspicious manner. He was accosted and searched and items used in lottery scamming found.
The police say further investigations led to a search of his premises, which revealed a book containing names, addresses and phone numbers of people living abroad; scripts to obtain the personal information of people, among other lottery scamming paraphernalia. The items were seized.
