Pub crawl promoter found fit for trial
Posted Dec 3, 2010 06:49:36 AM.
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A pub crawl promoter will stand trial on identity theft and fraud charges.
A psychiatric assessment says Jonathan David De Young, 26, is mentally fit to stand trial on more than 260 fraud-related charges.
DeYoung heads High Impact Promotions, which runs the annual World’s Largest Pub Crawl in Halifax.
He’s accused of stealing ID information from about 30 people from Nova Scotia and Ontario and fraudulently obtaining almost $7,000 from payday loan companies in the Halifax area between April and October.
He was arrested in October after police searched his Gladstone Street apartment and allegedly found equipment used to make counterfeit ID’s like driver’s licenses, health cards and social insurance cards.
He’s back in court Monday.
