A Pembroke man was sentenced to nine months in prison yesterday in Magistrates? Court after pleading guilty to four dishonesty offences.

Jamar Malik Dill, 31, was charged with theft, sometime between October 16 to 19 in Pembroke ? namely stealing a Bank of Butterfield cheque.

He admitted to forging the cheque on October 19 and presenting it to the Bank, known as uttering the cheque.

He also pleaded guilty to intent to defraud, by falsely pretending that the Bank of Butterfield cheque made out for $150, was genuine.

Crown counsel Shakira Dill said that at 10.45 a.m. on October 19, Police received a report that 19 cheques and some loose change had been stolen from a taxi parked and secured on St. John?s Road in Pembroke.

The complainant was contacted by an employee of the Bank of Butterfield who said that someone had attempted to cash one of his stolen cheques ? for $150.

Ms Dill said that at 5.50 p.m. that day Police saw Dill riding a bicycle into Spanish Point.

He was arrested on suspicion of stealing and transferred to Hamilton Police Station.

In his statement to Police, Dill said he found the cheque in a Cedar Hill parking lot already filled in and denied stealing the cash in the taxi.

But yesterday he pleaded guilty to all four offences and Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner jailed him for nine months.