Wheatley found not guilty of using counterfiet money
BVI News Staff - Thursday, June 7th, 2012 at 12:59 PM
A jury found Carl Wheatley on June 5 not guilty of the charges of handling forged notes and being in possession of forged notes knowing the same to be forged.
According to court records, on September 20, 2010 the defendant allegedly went to the Parham Town Food Market on three occasions on the same day with counterfeit monies. The case, which was prosecuted by Crown Counsel Sarah Benjamin and defended by Ruthilia Maximea of Maximea & Co, began on May 30 before Justice Albert Redhead. A total of four witnesses were called by the Crown.
The Crown alleged that the defendant was guilty because he told the sales clerk at the Parham Town Food Store: “Me nah no rascal, the money dem good” after she told him on the third occasion that the monies were counterfeit. It was stated that the defendant kept returning to the store to make purchases.
In his evidence to the court, Wheatley disclosed that he was sent to purchase drinks by an individual who was on crutches, and was at the time working at a car wash nearby.
One of the Crown’s witnesses was a US FBI agent. Following that evidence, the $20 notes were passed around. The defendant’s attorney, Maximea, examined the notes, took out a $20 from her purse, mixed it with the other three notes, crumbled them together and there after passed the three notes back to the FBI agent.
Maximea later told the court that the money felt real and looked like a real $20 note. She said that no ordinary person in the capacity of Carl Wheatley would know that the bills were counterfeit, unless, like the FBI, the notes were properly tested and evaluated to confirm their genuineness. The defence attorney also stated that all of the Crown’s witnesses agreed that they would not have known the money was counterfeit until it was passed under the cash scan machine and properly evaluated by the FBI.
The attorney noted that her client did not receive the change from the monies he was given to make the purchase and did not benefit in anyway.
The Crown’s four witnesses included a police officer, the FBI agent, the cashier and any other person.
It was stated that the monies was sent to be tested at the Parham Town General Supplies store which is nearby. The court also heard that on the first instance the defendant gave the cashier $20 and was given change in the amount of $16.25. For the second purchase he presented $20 and received $18 change, and did the same for the third purchase.
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he need to stop and be care ful
sounds like money laundering to me…
you introduce the dirty money into the system, and get clean cash in return. u mean to tell me that on the first occassion he spent $3.75 and was given 16.25 change BUT on the second purchase he didnt have enough change to make the $2.00 purchase??? he had to give another $20.00 bill to be given $18.00 change? and then to top it off, he went back with ANUDDA $20.00 BILL? LMAO
One would be a fool to believe that it was mere coincidence that a counterfeit $20.00 bill was presented on THREE separate occassions in THE SAME DAY to make small purchases and get back ALOTTA change..looks like he got away with it once so went back a second and a third time.
these people tryin play the law…by his deeds shall a man be known…they start off small then turn in to big time money launderers…let them pay the price now or else there would be a greater problem to deal with in the future.
If he aint guilty, find out who is…somebody HAVE to pay.
Well said “well well”. He got away this time. Hope he learns from his mistake because the next time he won’t get off so easily.
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