Car Dealer Fined After Vanishing with Buyer’s Cash

A Belize City car dealer is in hot water tonight, accused of taking thousands of dollars from a customer and never delivering the vehicle she paid for. Thirty-one-year-old Jordan Gerald Morey appeared in court this afternoon, charged with obtaining property by deception. The allegations? Morey reportedly took six thousand, seven hundred dollars from Natesha Flores between September and December last year, promising to import a Mazda from the U.S. But the car never showed up, and neither did Morey, according to Flores, who says he vanished after months of excuses. In court, Morey pleaded guilty, citing personal hardship, including the recent death of his mother. Despite his plea, the magistrate noted a troubling pattern, this isn’t his first run-in with the law for similar offenses. He was fined two thousand, five hundred dollars and given until August twenty-ninth to pay up or face a year behind bars.

 

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