Terry Frempong-Masson the US-based Ghanaian event promoter who
was arrested in 2018 over credit card fraud is serving a 3 year sentence.
US-base news
site mycentraljersey reported that the accused was charged with “one count of
theft by deception, two counts of identity theft, one count of receiving stolen
property, one count of money laundering, one count of conspiracy to commit
theft by deception, and one count of criminal attempt to commit theft by
deception, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey and Perth
Amboy Police Chief Roman McKeon.”
According to
an investigation carried out by Perth Amboy Sgt. Mabner Terron and Middlesex
County Prosecutor’s Office Detective Christopher Pennis, between Jan. 19 and
Feb. 2, “Frempong-Masson placed online orders for the rental or purchase of
film equipment from three film companies using fraudulent identities”.
Terry
Frempong-Masson begun his prison sentence on January 13, 2020.
His last Facebook post was on January 12, 2020 and since that
day he went AWOL with friends and loved ones always asking about his
whereabouts.
Terry Frempong-Masson is known in the Ghana music industry
for promoting events of the likes of Shatta Wale, Sarkodie and Lilwin in the
United States of America.
Records on the website of State of New Jersey Department of
Corrections shows Terry Frempong-Masson is currently on parole, (the temporary
or permanent release of a prisoner before the expiry of a sentence, on the
promise of good behaviour).
The parole started in October 5, 2020 so he’s now out of custody
but the actual sentence will end on February 5, 2022.
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