A MEMBER of the Police Tactical Services Unit (TSU) was, yesterday, granted $150,000 bail on a larceny charge. 

Before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, Kleon Jack, of Lot 1574 Amelia’s Ward, Linden, pleaded not guilty to the offence, particulars of which said, between June 1 and 13, at Eve Leary, Georgetown, he stole, from Samuel Amsterdam, one laptop computer valued $140,000.
Police Corporal Bharat Mangru, prosecuting, told the Court that the virtual complainant (VC) and defendant are both in the TSU and, sometime during the period mentioned in the charge, the former had secured his property in a cupboard.
He made checks, later, and discovered that the cupboard had been broken into and after an investigation, the defendant admitted the theft.
The defendant has been in the Guyana Police Force (GPF) for one year and eight months, said Mangru, who did not object to bail prior to the case being adjourned to January 31.