KEVON FELMINE

Se­nior Re­porter

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two dar­ing bur­glar­ies in Siparia and Bar­rack­pore, which led to thou­sands of dol­lars in cash, jew­ellery, and equip­ment stolen over Thurs­day night and Fri­day morn­ing.

In Siparia, staff at Sky Pâtis­serie at De Gannes Vil­lage ar­rived Fri­day morn­ing to find the doors forced open and the premis­es ran­sacked. In­ves­ti­ga­tors said ap­prox­i­mate­ly $15,000 in cash and a grey Hon­ey­well brief­case con­tain­ing $3,500 were miss­ing. Of­fi­cers re­port­ed that the point of en­try and ex­it was a small 3x3 ven­ti­la­tion fan on the side of the build­ing.

Siparia Po­lice, in­clud­ing PC Austin and PC Ram­per­sad, ar­rived at the scene, in­ter­viewed wit­ness­es, and re­viewed CCTV footage. Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors processed the site, but no work­able fin­ger­prints were re­cov­ered. 

Mean­while, in Bar­rack­pore, a 51-year-old truck dri­ver re­turned home Fri­day af­ter­noon to dis­cov­er his front win­dow smashed, the door pried open, and his home thor­ough­ly ran­sacked. Stolen items in­clud­ed gold jew­ellery val­ued at $43,000, weld­ing equip­ment, a gen­er­a­tor, a TCL tele­vi­sion, two LPG gas tanks, a pres­sure wash­er, and oth­er house­hold items, bring­ing to­tal loss­es to over $55,000.

A team of of­fi­cers, in­clud­ing PC Ali, Ag/Cpl Hug­gins, and PC Reg­is, re­spond­ed to the scene, col­lect­ed state­ments, and spoke to sev­er­al per­sons of in­ter­est. Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors ex­am­ined the prop­er­ty and re­cov­ered work­able fin­ger­prints. CCTV footage from sur­round­ing ar­eas has al­so been re­quest­ed to aid the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries in both cas­es and are urg­ing any­one with in­for­ma­tion to con­tact the re­spec­tive po­lice sta­tions.