By Claudia Gardner, Gleaner WriterHANOVER:
THE THREE members of the Police Force implicated in connection with the failed Quick Cash Partner Plan pyramid scheme in Lucea were booked to stand trial on June 23 and 24 when they reappeared in the Lucea Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.
This was after much deliberation by the defence attorney in making the decision on the selection of trial dates proposed by the Crown Counsel who has been assigned in the matter.
In their first court appearance in January, the three accused, Superintendent Anthony Morris, Inspector Erril McBean and Corporal Cibolene Donaldson, were ordered to surrender their travel documents to the police. Super-intendent Morris was granted bail in the sum of $1 million while Inspector McBean and Corporal Donaldson were granted bail in the sum of $750,000 each. Superinten-dent Morris was charged with larceny as a bailee and fraudulent conversion of $600,000 between April 23 and May 17, 2001. In the larceny charge it is alleged that he stole $600,000, the property of Dorris Daley, who was the mastermind behind the Quick Cash Partner plan in Lucea. He was also charged with fraudulent conversion in the same matter.
ALLEGATIONS
It is said that between April 23 and May 17, 2001, he was entrusted with $1.4 million belonging to Dorris Daley to return in safe custody but fraudulently converted $600,000 to his own use. Inspector McBean was charged with breaching the Corruption Prevention Act.
Allegations are that at the time the partner plan was in operation he improperly used the armoury, police mobile loudspeaker and police vehicles which he had command and control of at the time to assist Ms Daley in conducting her business.
Corporal Donaldson was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice. It is alleged that she went to Flankers in Montego Bay where she saw Ms Daley and knew that a warrant was out for her but did not arrest her or take steps to apprehend her, or have the matter reported.
