A CHICKEN plucker has been charged with stealing two drakes and six ducks in Berbice.The 16-year-old lad has been released into the custody of his mother after he denied the larceny of poultry charge at the Albion Magistrate Court a week ago.

Police Sergeant Phillip Sherrif, prosecuting, said that on March 10 last at 03:00 hrs, Lewis (only name given) awoke and was attempting to close his back window when she noticed the defendant in her backyard with a white bag in which he had placed the birds.

She called out to the known character, who escaped by jumping over the fence in the yard with the bag. He was subsequently nabbed, and the birds were recovered.
He was expected to return to court Tuesday last before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh.