By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A MAN was remanded to prison yesterday for allegedly defrauding several people of over $15K this year while on bail for 44 other fraud charges.
He also allegedly failed to obey the bail conditions of the fraud and money laundering charges.
Magistrate Kendra Kelly charged Vaughn Antonio Johnson, 50, with two counts of fraud by false pretences, three counts of money laundering and five counts of stealing by reason of service.
Johnson faced a further ten counts of violation of bail conditions.
Johnson was already on bail for 44 fraud by false pretences and money laundering charges from last September after he posed as a mechanic for over a year.
Johnson allegedly failed to obey his weekly sign-in conditions at East Street South Police Station between July 7 and September 13 ten times.
He is further accused of stealing $15,635 from Quinton Charlton, Bridgette Mills, Romone Adderley and Randolph Curtis because of false service between July 17 and September 16.
During this same timeframe, the accused allegedly acquired $8,835 through money laundering connected to these crimes.
Johnson also allegedly defrauded Doreen Bain of $5,380 under false pretences between July 16-17.
Although the accused pleaded not guilty to all charges, he was denied bail because of the number of charges against him. He was remanded to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services until his trial on October 10.
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