Western Bureau — Montego Bay resident Donovan Grant, who stole $65,000 from a computer shop while posing as a police officer, was on Thursday sentenced to two years imprisonment at hard labour.

The ruling was handed down by judge Wilson Smith in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court.

According to the investigating officer, Detective Constable Michael Chisholm, on April 27, Grant went into a computer shop, located along Orange Street in Montego Bay, and stole the money.

Chisholm told the Observer that Grant, who misrepresented himself as a police officer, managed to gain the confidence of the shop’s owner, Allison Barton. She subsequently allowed him to help her count the $65,000 that had been brought to the shop by a relative.

Chisholm said Barton later went to the bathroom, and when she returned, Grant borrowed the restroom key from her. However, the 29-year-old cop impersonator failed to return. And when the money was later discovered missing, Barton immediately went to the police’s Area 1 Headquarters where she complained of having been robbed by a police officer.

It was then discovered that Grant was not in fact a police officer, after a witness who had seen him steal the money, identified him.

He was held by the police in Linstead on May 1.

Since then, Grant who claimed the $65,000 had been stolen by a “stocky, ” who gave him $20,000, has returned approximately $10,000.