Plaisance man charged with giving false information to Police

– placed on $50K bail

A 34-year-old man was charged on Friday with providing false information to a Police officer, an allegation his attorney says stems from an ongoing investigation involving another accused. Nicholas Hall, of Victoria Road, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara (ECD), appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, where the charge was read to him.
It is alleged that on April 9, 2025, Hall knowingly gave false information to officers attached to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) during the course of an investigation, claiming that he did not know Shemaiah Ryan.

The information reportedly caused the investigator to discontinue enquiries related to Hall, resulting in the present charge being laid against him. Hall, who is unemployed, was represented by Attorney-at-Law Jevon Cox, who informed the court that his client currently has a pending matter before another Magistrate and contended that the new charge was connected to that earlier case. Cox maintained that the allegations were unfounded and that both he and Hall were prepared to defend the allegations. In his application for bail, Cox told the court that his client had no intention of absconding and requested that reasonable bail be granted, noting his client’s financial difficulties due to unemployment. The prosecution raised no objection to bail. The Magistrate thereafter granted Hall bail in the sum of $50,000, and the matter was adjourned to October 17, 2025.

It was reported that the charge is linked to a major fraud case involving Shemaiah Ryan, called “Banker,” who is accused of defrauding a Georgetown couple of $36.4 million through online and ATM transactions in September 2022.
Ryan, a 23-year-old unemployed resident of Bent Street, Wortmanville, faces 48 charges, including 25 counts of simple larceny and 23 counts of conspiracy to commit computer-related fraud, for allegedly syphoning funds from the joint savings account of Carl and Bernadette Peterkin. According to the Police, the couple never applied for ATM cards or Internet banking access. However, Ryan and others allegedly created a fake national identification card using Carl Peterkin’s information and then used it to obtain an ATM card and register for online banking at a city branch. Ryan is accused of subsequently transferring over $31.5 million to the accounts of Donna Edwards and Chelsea Edwards, under the pretext of paying workers for a Government contract. Between September 2 and September 30, 2022, he allegedly made 27 ATM withdrawals totalling $4.8 million, with CCTV footage capturing him at various machines around Georgetown.
Ryan was charged and placed on $2.4 million bail, having pleaded not guilty to all 48 counts when he appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore earlier this year.