FOUR teenagers, including three juveniles charged with break and enter and larceny appeared before Magistrate Rhondel Weaver at the Blairmont Court where they were denied pre-trial liberty.However, Dilbert Gavin Peters aged 17 years, a labourer of Bath Settlement, was remanded to the New Amsterdam Prison, while his co-defendants aged 16, 15,and 14 were each remanded at the police holding facility at Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice.
Police said, the teens, all residents of Bath Settlement, West Bank Berbice, allegedly broke into Dollie’s Boutique, between January 28 and February 4, last, and stole therein a laptop computer, a DS 3 game, a small fan and a quantity of clothing totalling $438,800, property of Ramgobin Chaganlall, called “Blacko.”
Subsequently, it is alleged that the teens during the night of February 6, burglarised the Super Value Store and stole two laptop computers, a quantity of cosmetics, sausages and alcohol.
During the theft, witnesses alleged that the thieves used a hacksaw blade to saw off the iron grill door from the back of the respective building, prior to entering and removing the booty.
After an alarm was raised, the police were notified and subsequent investigations then led to the arrest of the defendants and the recovery of some of the items.
The matter is fixed for hearing on February 25.