A magistrate yesterday signed an extradition order for alleged Jamaican lottery scammer Damion Barrett to be handed over to US authorities to stand trial in the US.
According to documents presented during Barrett's extradition hearing in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court, prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida requested that he be sent there to stand trial on two counts of wire fraud. Each count carries a maximum prison sentence of 30 years.
Barrett, who is from Montego Bay, St James, consented to be extradited.
In documents used to support the extradition request, US authorities revealed that another Jamaican, Oneike Mickhale Barnett, confessed that he, Barrett 'and others' were part of a lottery-scam scheme they used to enrich themselves.
In March 2013, US senators Susan Collins and Bill Nelson urged a special committee in Washington to seek to have Jamaican lottery scammers extradited to that country to stand trial. They also chided the Jamaican Government for not acting quickly enough to tackle the scam.
It also claimed that Barrett admitted that the scheme defrauded 10 persons of about US$120,000 (J$13,871,100).
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