Businessman accused of $1.2 million car-buying fraud granted $300,000 bail

A businessman accused of defrauding a senior member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force of $1.2 million after he allegedly failed to supply a motor car was today granted $300,000 bail with surety in the St Catherine Parish Court. Jerome Crichton is charged with non-delivery of service and fraudulent conversion. In applying for bail, his attorney, Delpharine Golding-Jenkins, told the court that Crichton is a registered business operator who deals in motor vehicles.