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Two men from Ma­yaro have been charged with lar­ce­ny by trick in which a San Fer­nan­do den­tist was de­fraud­ed of $190,000 in a bo­gus cur­ren­cy ex­change scheme.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, on Sep­tem­ber 13th, the vic­tim, a 35-year-old res­i­dent of Palmiste, was con­tact­ed by a man claim­ing to be an em­ploy­ee of a well-known phar­ma­cy.

The caller re­quest­ed an ex­change of Trinidad and To­ba­go cur­ren­cy for Unit­ed States cur­ren­cy un­der the pre­text of as­sist­ing with an ur­gent med­ical pro­ce­dure.