Wendiana McKenzie allegedly forged the Royal Bank of Canada cheques over a five-month period, from August 8th, 2005 to January 23rd of this year.<\/P><\/p>\n
McKenzie faces 27 counts – nine counts of fraud, nine counts of uttering a forged document, six counts of fraud by false pretences and three counts of attempted fraud.<\/P><\/p>\n
It was alleged that:<\/P><\/p>\n
* On August 9, 2005 McKenzie forged a RBC cheque, #38992, in the amount of $900 and on the same day she cashed it at the RBC branch on Bay and Victoria streets.<\/P><\/p>\n
* Two weeks later, McKenzie altered a RBC cheque, # 35462, in the amount of $3,000 and cashed it at the RBC in Palmdale.<\/P><\/p>\n
* On September 1, 2005, McKenzie altered a RBC cheque, # 37290, for $2,500 and on the same day cashed it at the RBC Mackey Street branch. <\/P><\/p>\n
* Less than a week later, on September 8, McKenzie stole a RBC cheque, #36810, in the amount of $2,500 and cashed it at the Bay and Victoria streets branch.<\/P><\/p>\n
* On September 19, 2005, she cashed a stolen RBC cheque, #38505, in the amount of $2,500 at the RBC Bay Street branch. <\/P><\/p>\n
* On October 13, McKenzie cashed a stolen cheque, #37679, for $2,500 at the Bay and Victoria streets branch.<\/P><\/p>\n
* Seven days later, McKenzie cashed a stolen cheque, # 39575, in the amount of $2,500 at the RBC in Lyford Cay.<\/P><\/p>\n
* Earlier this month, McKenzie cashed a $2,500 cheque, # 43310, and cheque # 40608 at RBC on Mackey Street and the Bay and Victoria streets branch.<\/P><\/p>\n
McKenzie appeared before Magistrate Marilyn Meeres in Court 5, Bank Lane.<\/P><\/p>\n
Also appearing before the magistrate yesterday was 29-year-old Shanique Curtis who was charged with stealing $1,050 from Bahamasair Holdings Limited, on January 24.<\/P><\/p>\n
Curtis was allegedly responsible for the funds when they were reported stolen.<\/P><\/p>\n
She was granted $3,000 bail with one surety.<\/P><\/p>\n
Both women are expected to return to court on May 23.<\/P><\/p>\n
By: Royanne Forbes-Darville, The Bahama Journal<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 25-year-old female resident of Sea Beach Estates was yesterday released on $20,000 bail with two sureties after pleading not guilty to forging $24,000 in cheques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-248666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248666","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}