APPEARING before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday was 20-year-old Marvin Agard and Selwayne Gill, a 40-year-old vagrant, accused of stealing mats from Kissoon’s Furniture Outlet on Main Street.According to the charge, the men allegedly broke into the outlet over the last weekend and stole three small floor mats valued $2,000 along with a $6,000 large mat, the property of Hemraj Kissoon.
Gill accepted the charge while Agard of Queen Street, South Cummingburg denied it and his lawyer Mr Paul Fung-a-fat explained that his client went to the outlet, which was an empty lot, because ‘nature called.’ He was caught at the wrong place, at the wrong time.
Nevertheless, according to the prosecution facts, a security guard was preforming checks at the store when he observed the two men with goods in their hands and raised an alarm. The duo was arrested and charged. The men allegedly gained entry into the outlet after the tarpaulin was cut. It cost its owner $45,000 to repair.
Gill said that on the day in question he was at the outlet picking up bottles when he found a bag with the mats inside. Agard, he stressed, had no part in the commission of the crime.
The Chief Magistrate granted Agard bail to the tune of $10,000 and fined Gill $20,000 or in default four weeks’ imprisonment.