$200,000 fine for theft, forgery of driver’s licence

A man was fined $200,000 with an alternative of serving three consecutive jail sentences when he pleaded guilty to charges of theft, intent to defraud and forgery in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
Donald Baird of 22 Hardina Street, Wortmanville was charged with the theft of a driver’s licence, number 793124, which occurred on March 12. According to the charges, he also intended to commit fraud by forging the said licence and uttering a forged document, which he knew to be false, to police officer Sean Leitch.