Belize City Woman Allegedly Obtained $121,000 By Deception 

Earlier today, Doris Grant was arraigned on forty counts of obtaining property by deception. The Reggae Street Resident appeared before Magistrate Lois Young along with her attorney, Richard “Dickie” Bradley. Grant was read fourteen counts of theft, fourteen counts of obtaining property by deception and twelve counts of obtaining money transfer by deception.   Allegations are that between January first, 2022, and July 2022, she stole over one hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars by money transfer or obtaining property by deception or through theft. It is believed that on January tenth, 2022, she obtained twenty thousand dollars by deception through a bank transfer. Further allegations are that between January first, 2022, to November eight, 2022, she dishonestly appropriated thirty-one thousand dollars that was the property of a real estate company based in the U.S. Additionally, it is alleged that between January tenth and April first, 2022, she stole eighteen thousand dollars from the same company, along with another stolen nine thousand dollars. As we said, the amounts that Grant allegedly received adds up to more than one hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars. There was no objection to bail by the prosecution who simply asked for certain conditions to be placed on Grant.  Magistrate Lois Young offered her bail in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, plus one surety of the same or two sureties of twenty-five thousand dollars each.  No plea was taken from Grant, and she was also able to meet bail.