THREE men charged jointly with two counts of break and enter and larceny committed at separate homes in Fort Ordinance Housing Scheme, were each granted $75,000 bail by New Amsterdam Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus yesterday.Byron Van Lewin, Basheer Kursattie and Adrian Rambarack, all residents of the Fort Ordinance Scheme, are alleged to have entered the dwelling house of Colin Caesar and stolen six tablets, an internet router, an HP laptop computer, a digital scale, gold jewellery and cash all valued $1,235,000.
Police said the virtual complainant, a school bus contractor, had secured his home on December 9 and left for work. But on returning at 10:30hrs, he observed that the premises had been broken into and the items missing.
Meanwhile, on January 9 last, 16-year-old Chandanie Panday departed her secured home, as customary, to sleep at her brother’s place three houselots away.
On her return the following morning though, she found that the padlocks on her gate and door had been removed and her parents’ home was ransacked.
Subsequently, she missed her notebook computer, a home theatre, a Sony digital camera, gold jewellery and clothing, all worth $820,000.
The defendants have since denied the charges and are expected to return to court on June 24 for trial.