Dec 3, 2009
Teen Gets 1 Year In Prison For Stealing Church Offering
19 year old Fray Manning, of a Windsor Heights, St. Catherine address, pleaded guilty to a charge of simple larceny of $308,057 (a church’s collection/offering money), and sentenced yesterday to 1 year imprisonment at hard labour.
The court heard that on October 27 of this year, at about 9:30 a.m., a deacon took his church’s offering to the National Commercial Bank Portmore branch for lodgment. As he parked the car and was getting out, Manning reportedly ran up to him, grabbed the bag with the tithes (money) and ran off. The deacon called for help, and got assistance from persons who chased Manning and caught him. He was handed over to the police and arrested and charged.