RAWLE Joseph, 35, of Lot 6613 Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, appeared in court, yesterday, charged with simple larceny and damage to property.
The defendant, a computer technician at the United States (U.S.) Embassy in Kingston, pleaded not guilty to the charges before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry. Particulars of the offences alleged that, on August 30, at Charlotte and King Streets, also in Georgetown, he damaged one hard drive valued $20,000 property of Nalini Singh and, the same day, stole one flash drive worth $5,000, belonging to Singh, as well.
Police Corporal Kerry Bostwick, prosecuting, said the defendant and virtual complainant are known to each other and the former went to the latter’s office to repair her hard drive but damaged it instead and he never returned the flash drive that was given to him.
The prosecutor said a report was made after Singh made several unsuccessful attempts to contact Joseph.
Defence Counsel Nigel Anthony requested reasonable bail to which the prosecutor did not object.
The lawyer said Joseph was hired by Singh to retrieve some information from the hard drive and, when he could not do the so, she made the allegations that he damaged the hard drive and stole the flash drive.
Joseph was sent on his own recognisance and the cases will be called, again, on October 9.