Clarendon contractor charged in alleged $250m laundering case; courts also hear passport fraud and INDECOM diary evidence

Retired Clarendon college contractor Donna-Marie Green-Mitchell has been charged with several money-laundering offences after the Financial Investigations Division alleged that real estate now valued at more than $250 million was held in her name for her nephew, Oneil McKenzie, a Jamaican who lived in Brooklyn, New York and was convicted in the United States on drug distribution charges. The FID said Green-Mitchell was arrested and charged on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, after a joint probe with the Jamaica Constabulary Force's Constabulary Financial Unit, Fraud Squad and the Financial Crime Investigations Division of the Specialized Investigations Branch. Bail was set at $3 million, and she is to appear in the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Court in Half-Way Tree on July 9, 2026.

According to the FID, Green-Mitchell faces three counts each of possession of criminal property, dealing in criminal property and engaging in a transaction involving criminal property, along with single counts of entering an arrangement for the acquisition of criminal property for or on behalf of another, acquisition of criminal property and conspiracy to acquire criminal property. Investigators said three properties, first valued at about $120 million and now appraised above $250 million, were registered in her name in St. Andrew, St. Ann and Manchester, but were allegedly beneficially owned by McKenzie. He was sentenced in the US to 188 months in federal prison and died in October 2023 while serving that term. The FID and CFU alleged that Green-Mitchell knowingly held the assets and facilitated transactions involving suspected criminal proceeds. Deputy Superintendent Bert Williams warned Jamaicans to be careful about putting assets or purchases in their names for other people without checking that the funds are legitimate. The agency said the charges are allegations, Green-Mitchell is presumed innocent unless proven guilty, the investigation is ongoing, and fronting assets for others can lead to prosecution, forfeiture and imprisonment where the money cannot be shown to be lawful.

In another matter, Dave Sinclair was fined $150,000 or 30 days' imprisonment after pleading guilty on Tuesday in the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Court to obtaining a passport by means of a forged document, uttering a forged document for travel and making a false declaration. Senior Parish Court Judge Sanchia Borrell imposed the sentence. Sinclair told the court he had used the passport to travel to the Bahamas, from where he was deported to Jamaica, and said he had earlier been deported from the United States, leaving his children there. He also admitted trying to re-enter the US through the Bahamas, but said he had stopped trying to return by illegal means.

The Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston also heard from an INDECOM investigator on Wednesday in the murder trial of six policemen over the January 12, 2013 shooting deaths of Matthew Lee, Mark Allen and Ucliffe Dyer in an alleged shootout on Acadia Drive in Barbican, St. Andrew. The witness, whose examination was led by prosecutor Kathy-Ann Pike, said he was part of the team that responded, later went to Constant Spring Police Station, copied the relevant station diary entry onto an INDECOM form and had a police officer verify it with a signature and witness, though he could not recall the officer's name. The court has previously been told the diary could not be found despite extensive searches. Judge Sonya Bertram Linton said he could only say he copied the entry, not give its contents, because the diary itself is not in evidence, and ruled the form could be marked for identification but not admitted. Defence attorneys also objected to photographs said to show the diary entry. The men on trial are Sergeant Mott, Corporal Devon Fullerton and Constables Andrew Smith, Sheldon Richards, Oral Rose and Richard Lynch; Fullerton is also charged with making a false statement to INDECOM. Defence attorneys include Althea Grant-Coping, Hugh Wildman and John Jacobs, and the trial was due to resume on Thursday.