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A Jamaican man who reportedly used intake from a lottery scam he operated to purchase a new home in Jamaica and a vineyard in Argentina, was jailed for almost six years in relation to scamming an elderly American man of almost US$1.2 million.
Stieve Fernandez, a 35-year-old resident of Lucea, Hanover, was sentenced to 71 months in prison by US District Judge Kari A Dooley in Bridgeport, Connecticut on Friday.
Fernandez had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in February.
The charges emanated from a scam in which he and two others targeted an elderly man from Mystic in Connecticut, United States, defrauding a total of US$1,196,207 from him.