A 37-year-old man accused of operating a fraudulent document factory, specialising in producing foreign and local driver’s permits and credit cards, has been released on $150,000 bail.
Larry Howell, of Raghuraj Street, Tacarigua, was granted the bail after appearing before Senior Magistrate Gillian David-Scotland in the Chaguanas First Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
He faces almost a dozen charges arising out of a raid on his home last week.
Howell was slapped with nine charges for fraud, one for possessing card-making equipment, and for cocaine and marijuana trafficking, among others.
During yesterday’s hearing, detectives of the North Eastern Division Task Force (NEDTF), who led last Wednesday’s raid, brought the illegal items allegedly seized in the raid to be tendered into evidence.
The items included credit card reader/writers, card embossment machines, card printers, photo printers and several laptops as well a multiple fraudulent cards and documents which were varying stages of production.
A large quanity of illegal drugs and counterfeit money was also reportedly seized during the raid which was led by Sgt Cornelius Samuel and Cpls Jacey Small and Hector Quashie.
Howell was ordered to report to police three times weekly for the duration of his case and will reappear in court on December 16.