SPRING, St Catherine – Howard Wright, 25, a former supervisor at the Jamaica Broilers Processing Plant in Spring, St Catherine has been booked to appear in the Old Harbour Magistrate Court on April 30, to answer to charges of fleecing the company of $300,000.

He was arrested and charged by the Old Harbour Police after he was accused of forging signatures on several cheque leaves to obtain the cash from a bank in the area.

Wright has been charged with forgery and obtaining money by fraud.

According to the Old Harbour Criminal Investigation Bureau, between March 15 and April 7 of this year, Donald Smith – a contractor at the Jamaica Boilers Processing Plant – left the cheque book in his office. It was some time during that period that Wright tore out eight blank leaves from the book, cops said, adding that he then wrote cheques in the names of several family members.

He later cashed the cheques at a bank in the town, cops said.

Wright’s actions were discovered and the matter reported to the police on April 16, which subsequently resulted in his being arrested and charged.