By Dalton Laing, Star Writer

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The Savanna-la-Mar police last Monday made a sizeable dent in a credit card scam which has been plaguing western Jamaica, when they arrested and charged three St. James men.

Charged with obtaining goods by false pretence and uttering forged documents as Kirk Vernon, otherwise called 'Anthony Clarke' and 'Face', a 20-year-old labourer of Farm Heights in St. James; Dareo McFarlane, 20, computer technician also of Farm Heights, and Jeffery Clarke, 19, of Rose Heights. All three men have been charged with conspiracy to defraud.

Information reaching THE STAR says that about 4:30 p.m. on January 16, the Savanna-la-Mar police, acting on intelligence, intercepted the car in which the three were travelling along Great George Street. A search of the vehicle and the men revealed a quantity of car parts and accessories, expensive cellular phones, car batteries and tyres, and a fraudulent credit card and driver's licences.

Different identities

The credit card was taken from Vernon who had his photograph and signature on it but bearing the name George Kuelli of a Florida address. He was also found with two drivers licenses bearing the name George Kuelli of Florida and Anthony Kerr of the United Kingdom with his picture and signature.

The police believe that Vernon used the false documents to purchase goods from at least four stores in Savanna-la-Mar and that they have been making purchases elsewhere in Western Jamaica.