A STING operation set up by police led to two police constables being placed under close arrest, after they were caught red-handed, returning a stolen lap top computer to the owner who had given them a sum of money for the return of the article.

The two ranks were found with the stolen lap top computer in a house at North Ruimveldt, Georgetown on Friday.
According to a police release on December 24, 2012 a taxi-driver and his three passengers were held up at gun-point at Haslington North, East Coast Demerara. The two perpetrators (on motor cycle), one of whom had a hand gun, relieved the victims of two lap top computers;  a quantity of jewellery; three cell phones and an undisclosed sum of cash, then escaped.
The police release disclosed that, even though police investigators began investigations the investigating party did not manage to recover the items stolen.
Ironically, on Friday December 28, 2012, the investigators received information that the two police constables had approached the owner of one of the computers and had received a sum of money from him for the return of the computer.
A sting operation was set up and the two ranks were found with the stolen lap top computer in a house at North Ruimveldt, Georgetown.
What remains unclear is whether the two rogue cops approached the victim with a proposal or did the victim approach them with an offer of payment, in the event they could retrieve the stolen computer.
Police are continuing their investigations.