A man has been found guilty of trafficking in persons and sentenced to prison.
Forty-four-year-old Tito Browne, known as ‘Tommy’ and ‘Yankee’, was found guilty of trafficking two Jamaican nationals and sentenced to two 4-year terms of imprisonment when he appeared at the Linden Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Wanda Fortune after an eight-month-long trial which began in December 2021 and concluded in August 2022. He was also sentenced to one year’s imprisonment on the count of withholding the passports of the two Jamaican nationals. He was also fined $200,000 and ordered to pay restitution totalling $6,300,000 to the victims.