{"id":19838,"date":"2012-03-26T10:37:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T14:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=19838"},"modified":"2012-03-26T10:44:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T14:44:32","slug":"police-and-media-protect-white-collar-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/police-and-media-protect-white-collar-criminals","title":{"rendered":"Police and Media Protect White Collar Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19856\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19856\" title=\"monkey-ear\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/monkey-ear-250x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/monkey-ear-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/monkey-ear-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/monkey-ear.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bahamian news editors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A  married couple suspected of committing 96 counts of fraud is expected  to face charges in a magistrate\u2019s court on Monday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old Bahamian man and 32-year-old American woman were  arrested on Monday after police conducted a search of their western New  Providence home. Police found several items that were allegedly obtained  fraudulently.<\/p>\n<p>The couple was expected to be charged yesterday morning, however the  case was postponed as magistrates attended a legal conference.<\/p>\n<p>According to police reports, the man and woman will each be charged  with 39 counts of possession of forged documents, uttering forged  documents and fraud by false pretenses.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they became aware of the couple\u2019s alleged fraudulent  activity when the alleged victim noticed suspicious charges on his  credit card.<\/p>\n<p>The couple allegedly racked up over $40,000 in bills at more than 30  locations including designer clothing stores, grocery stores, \u201cnumber  houses\u201d, furniture shores, upscale restaurants and local bars.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged fraudulent activity took place in February.<\/p>\n<p>The Nassau Guardian understands that the 43-year-old man was deported to The Bahamas from The United States late last year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong><em>Krystel Rolle<br \/>\nNassau Guardian Staff Reporter<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young men caught with marijuana get their names and pictures splashed across the front pages of the local papers as criminals, but both the police and the media protect the identities of these white collar criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93,31,45,38],"class_list":["post-19838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-media","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}