Portmore businessman deported, charged with fraud in failed car-buying deal

A 52-year-old St Catherine businessman, who left Jamaica after failing to provide motor vehicles to two persons, has been charged with fraud after being arrested on an INTERPOL Red Notice for wanted persons.

Elvis Jones, of Portmore, was charged on Monday with fraudulent conversion, failing to issue receipt, and non-delivery of goods or service on contracted date after being deported from Panama on Saturday, April 13.

He is scheduled to appear in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish on Friday, April 19.

The police report that a man and a woman entered into separate agreements with Jones in March 2022 to have a 2016 Subaru Impreza motor car and in August 2022 to have a 2013 Toyota Aphard minivan imported from Japan, respectively.

They made the agreed payments with promises that the vehicles would be delivered within four weeks, according to the police.

A report was made to the police after the vehicles were not delivered as promised and an investigation was launched.

The police say it was later borne out that Jones had fled the island and was subsequently place on INTERPOL Red Notice for wanted persons.

The accused man was held in Panama and deported to Jamaica and was subsequently charged after a question-and-answer session in the presence of his attorney.

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