Earlier this week police charged 30-year-old Denmark Murrillo, 23-year-old Sylvin Bodden, and 28-year-old Recnickle Hemmans for forgery. Police allege that the three men along with Kenneth Jones, who is still at large, have been passing forged Bowen and Bowen checks in Belize City, Cayo, and Dangriga.
But what’s new tonight is that their alleged criminal enterprise extended beyond just those forged Bowen and Bowen checks. Today police reported that on Saturday February 14th, Kenneth Jones and Sylvin Bodden cashed two forged checks from the National Institute of Culture and History at Golden Bay Company Limited. Janet Leal told police that both Bodden and Jones cashed checks written for $500 each from NICH. She didn’t realize the checks were bogus until they bounced on Tuesday of this week. Bodden and Jones are expected to be charged with obtaining by deception.
That charge is in addition to the slew of others that have been piling up across three districts. On Tuesday in Cayo, Murrillo, Bodden, and Hemmans were charged for several counts of forgery, uttering a false document, claiming a false document and obtaining property by deception for the check fraud. Kenneth Jones has and is still on the run. Sources tell us he may have left the country.
