KINGSTON, Jamaica – Attorney-at-law, 55 year-old Dawn Satterswaite of Cherry Gardens, St Andrew, her husband realtor Terrence Allen and three relatives of a convicted transnational drug trafficker appeared in the Corporate Area Criminal Court yesterday.

The three relatives include: Paulette Higgins, 53 year-old of Norman Gardens, Kingston 2; Janet Ramsay, 50 year-old of Bridgeport, Portmore, St Catherine and Ann Marie Cleary, 40 year-old of Woodlawn, Manchester were arrested on December 17, 2013 during operations carried out by MOCA and FID in sections of the island. They were all charged for offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA), 2007

On December 17,  2013 predawn operations were carried out by MOCA and FID, assisted by members of the Mobile Reserve, Organized Crime Investigation Division (OCID), and the St Catherine South and Area Three Police. The operations, which signified the culmination of a protracted transnational investigation by MOCA and FID into a case of money laundering and other financial crimes, were carried out simultaneously in upper St Andrew, East Kingston, Portmore in St Catherine and Mandeville in Manchester.

Consequently, the four were arrested and  charged with counts of money laundering and appeared in the Half-Way-Tree Criminal Court on Monday, December 20, 2013 where they were each granted bail in the sum of ten million dollars with one surety with the following conditions;

1) Surrendering all travel documents; 2) A stop order issued

Allen was later charged with money laundering offences and joined in the matter.

Additional money laundering charges were also laid against Andrew Hamilton Construction Limited as well as the director and secretary of the company, Cleary and Ramsay respectively. A trial date was set in the matter for the week of Monday October 10, 2016.