MANCHESTER, Jamaica – Marvin Dean and Dudley Powell, the two men charged with a string of charges including uttering forged documents were granted bail in the Manchester Parish Court on Wednesday.

Dean, a decommissioned justice of the peace (JP) was offered bail in the sum of $600,000 while Powell, a current JP, was granted bail in the sum of $400,000 when they both appeared before Judge Monique Harrison.

Dean, 46, a resident of Cross Keys and Newport in Manchester; and Powell, 64, a businessman of Glenco, Spalding, on the Clarendon/Manchester border, are to report to the Newport and Spalding police stations respectively on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. They were also ordered to surrender their travel documents and a stop order placed at all ports.