MANCHESTER, Jamaica – Marvin Dean and Dudley Powell, the two men charged with a string of charges including uttering forged documents were granted bail in the Manchester Parish Court on Wednesday.

Dean, a decommissioned justice of the peace (JP) was offered bail in the sum of $600,000 while Powell, a current JP, was granted bail in the sum of $400,000 when they both appeared before Judge Monique Harrison.

Dean, 46, a resident of Cross Keys and Newport in Manchester; and Powell, 64, a businessman of Glenco, Spalding, on the Clarendon/Manchester border, are to report to the Newport and Spalding police stations respectively on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. They were also ordered to surrender their travel documents and a stop order placed at all ports.

Attorney-at-law Odane Marston represented Powell, while attorneys Rodain Richardson and Amy Dunkley represented Dean on Wednesday.

Dean and Powell are scheduled to reappear in the Manchester Parish Court on July 1.

Police say the men were charged last Thursday and Friday after they were held by cops in an operation at the Island Traffic Authority’s Mandeville Service Hub (depot) on May 18.

They are accused of purporting to be medical doctors and signing driver’s licence application forms.

Detectives last Thursday charged Dean with 12 offences; namely, impersonating a doctor; cheating the public revenue; uttering forged documents; possession of false documents; forgery, forging a Government seal; uttering forged seal; obtaining money by means of false pretence; conspiracy; forging the seal of a notary public; attempted bribery; and possession of forged stamp.

Last Friday detectives charged Powell with four offences: cheating the public revenue; conspiracy; using an official seal for fraudulent or unlawful purpose; and misconduct in a public office.

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— Kasey Williams