22 arrested in Westmoreland Lotto scam raids

WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — Four women are among 22 people arrested for lottery scamming by the Anti Lottery Scam Task Force in an operation carried out in the parish of Westmoreland early Sunday.

Reports are that about 5:00 am, members of the Task Force assisted by the Mobile Reserve and the Westmoreland police, carried out simultaneous raids in the communities of Belvedere, Lambs River, Petersfield and Cornwall Mountain in the parish.

During the raids, two motor cars, computers, tablets, cellular phones and a large quantity of lead lists, containing information mostly on elderly US nationals, were seized.