MONTEGO BAY, St James – A deportee who said he bought forged documents so he could go back to see his wife and children in New York was fined $80,000, or six months, when he appeared in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrates Court last week.

Nigel Bruce Stanley, a 29 year-old Kingston man who lived in the United States since he was 12 years old and was deported in February last year after an incident with his brother, pleaded guilty to uttering forged documents in court a week earlier. Senior Resident Magistrate Winsome Henry, however, denied him bail to allow the police to do a thorough check into the reason for the deportation.

The arresting officer later told the court that Stanley was deported after “an incident” with his brother and not for any other criminal offences.

Attorney-at-law Kenneth McLeod, who appeared for Stanley, had asked the court to grant the accused man bail, explaining that Stanley was not a flight threat. The lawyer said Stanley missed his wife, three children and sick mother and wanted to go visit them.

He told the court that last year Stanley had gotten into a confrontation with his brother, who is a substance abuser. He was subsequently deported after appearing in court.

Stanley was arrested at the Sangster International Airport on May 12 when he presented a California driver’s licence and US Virgin Islands birth certificate in the name of Nigel Anthony Johnson.

The court heard that the immigration officer became suspicious as the documents were missing certain security features.

Stanley was taken to an interview room where he admitted to buying the bogus documents for $20,000.