‘Poor And Boasy’ Pleads Guilty To Fraud Charges

The 2009 winner of the Magnum Kings and Queens of Dancehall Competition, Omar ‘Poor and Boasy’ Johnson pleaded guilty to fraud charges when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court today (Tuesday, August 23).

He pleaded guilty to a raft of charges that included obtaining money by means of false pretense, uttering a forged document and conspiracy to defraud.

The court heard that  ‘Poor and Boasy’ collected money amounting to US$1,000 from a deejay who had asked him to convert the cash to Jamaican dollars. The deejay is then alleged to have given the money that he collected in a sealed envelope to the complainant and received J$70,000 in return. It was later revealed that all the bills that the complainant got had the same serial number.

A report was made to the police and ‘Poor and Boasy’ was arrested and charged.

Judge Lori-Ann Cole-Montague presided over the case, and instructed that the entertainer must report to the Half-Way-Tree Police Station weekly until his next court date in November when a social enquiry report is expected to be presented.

Johnson rocketed to fame in 2009 when Jamaicans fell in love with his rags-to-riches story but his career has fallen off the rails since that time. 

This is not his first run-in with the law as in 2009, he faced charges of destruction of property and unlawful wounding following an incident in Spaulding, Clarendon. At that time, it was alleged that a tussle then developed between the men and Mr. Clarke was stabbed several times. Mr. Johnson fled the scene but turned himself in two days later to the Half- Way Tree Police. The case was later thrown out of court but the incident put a huge dent in his career. 

He has struggled to find his footing in the industry since that incident. He spent time around fellow deejay Tanto Blacks in 2016 when he tried to rejuvenate his career.