A senior citizen who embarked on a shopping spree at a supermarket in Kingston using two fraudulent cheques to obtain $36,000 worth of goods was yesterday remanded into custody for sentencing on October 4.

Richard Nicholson, a 69-year-old resident of McIntyre Village in Kingston, who is also before the court for a similar matter, pleaded guilty to two counts each of forgery, uttering forged documents and obtaining goods by false pretense when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

The court was told that on September 2, Nicholson went to the Empire Supermarket and Wholesale and tendered a forged cheque purportedly signed by the Child Development Agency in the amount of $18,000 which he used to purchase groceries.

A few days later Nicholson returned to the supermarket with another cheque in the said amount which he used to buy more goods.

It was later discovered that the cheques were fraudulent and following investigations Nicholson was arrested and charged.