Kimaly Hoyles, the 38-year-old airport employee who tried to leave the island on a fraudulent US passport, was on Wednesday fined $500,000 or three months’ imprisonment.
Hoyles appeared before the St James Parish Court where he was facing a charge of uttering a forged document. He was represented by attorney-at-law Ernest Davis. During the mitigation phase, Davis emphasized that his client chose not to prolong proceedings by entering a guilty plea and requested leniency from presiding judge Nateshia Fairclough-Hylton.
According to court documents, on September 12, Hoyles was in the process of boarding a flight to Toronto, Canada, from Sangster International Airport when authorities, acting on information they had received, questioned him and brought him into the immigration office. During questioning, he was asked for examination of his US passport, which was found to bear an immigration stamp showing a previous entry into the United States. However, an examination of the system showed no record of any travel activity associated with that specific passport. Hoyles eventually confessed that the passport in question was fraudulent.
Hoyles was previously convicted of multiple drug-related offenses, such as possession, dealing, attempting to export, trafficking, and conspiracy to commit drug-related crimes, and possession of criminal property. These charges stem from the seizure of approximately 271.5 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of over J$2 billion at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on December 10, 2003. He was sentenced on September 30.
