Popular local personality, Colin ‘Scrum Pum’ Edwards, has been granted bail after
being charged with larceny and fraudulent conversion.
The police are alleging that Edwards misappropriated over EC$80,000 meant for a
land transaction.
Edwards, an employee of the Ministry of Works, appeared in court and was
granted bail of $80,000, with a $10,000 cash component.
He will return to court on August 24 for committal proceedings.
In another case, Eldridge ‘Drury’ Martin has been granted bail for allegedly selling
a parcel of land, that does not belong to him, to an estimated 30 persons, over a
thirty-year period. He is charged with thirteen counts of fraudulent conversion,
thirteen counts of obtaining credit by fraud, and one count of larceny in the amount
of over $65 thousand.
The police were alerted after Martin attempted to ‘sell’ a parcel of land to an
elderly woman. He even took her to see the land and advised her to fence it. The
woman later found out that the land belonged to a nearby church.
Court records show that Martin has been attempting to sell the land since the
1990s.
