GUYANESE Curlis Anderson appeared in Port of Spain Magistrate’s Court Thursday, charged with receiving a laptop computer belonging to former West Indies Captain and star batsman Brian Lara. The 32-year-old woman, of Farouk Lane, El Socorro, appeared before Magistrate Brian Dabideen, in the Fourth (A) Court, on an indictable charge of having received the ‘Sony Vaio’ computer between October 18 last year and February 9 this year.
She was represented by lawyer Fareed Ali, who told the Court Anderson  had been living in Trinidad for the past six years and had, only recently, applied, through the Ministry of National Security, for permanent residence, Trinidad Newsday reported.
The newspaper said Ali claimed Anderson, who worked as a maid, did not have a criminal record there nor in Guyana and asked that she be granted bail.
Anderson, along with six other persons, was arrested at her home on Tuesday morning, after Police executed a search warrant there.
The officers reportedly found the laptop, a pair of batting pads and an autographed cricket bat belonging to Lara.
The other six suspects were, up to Thursday, still being held at the Central Police Station on St. Vincent Street, Port of Spain.
Anderson was granted $15,000 bail, with a surety to be approved by a Clerk of the Peace and will make her next Court appearance on February 23.
Earlier the same day, Lara’s former maid, Annmarie Marcano re-appeared before Dabideen in the Eleventh Court.
She was previously in front of the magistrate on Monday, charged with stealing one bottle of Angostura Master Blend Rum, nine Oakley sunglasses valued at US$300 each, five tie pins with ’400’ engraved on them, a silver Cartier pen with the words ’688 runs, well done’ engraved on it and a bottle of Taittinger Champagne, from Lara’s Lady Chancellor home.
Her case was adjourned to April 27 and she remains on $60,000 bail.