Plaisance Man Charged with Giving False Information to Police

October 17 2025

A 34-year-old man was recently charged with giving false information to the police, an allegation his attorney says stems from an ongoing investigation involving another accused.

Nicholas Hall, of 26 Victoria Road, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Principal Magistrate Faith McGusty, where the charge was read to him.

It is alleged that on April 9, 2025, Hall knowingly gave false information to police ranks attached to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) during the course of an investigation, claiming that he did not know Shemaiah Ryan.

SHEMAIAH RYAN

The information reportedly caused the investigator to discontinue inquiries related to Hall, resulting in the present charge being laid against him.

Hall, who is unemployed, was represented by Attorney-at-Law Jevon Cox.

The lawyer informed the court that his client currently has a pending matter and contended that the new charge was connected to that earlier case.

Cox maintained that the allegations were unfounded and that Hall was prepared to defend himself.

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.

Magistrate thereafter granted Hall bail in the sum of $50,000, and the matter was adjourned to October 17, 2025.

According to reports Hall’s 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 siphoning 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 totaling $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.

His matter is still ongoing in the courts.