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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Crime Watch

Battery thieves surrender

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Crime­Watch host Ian Al­leyne con­tin­ues to de­liv­er.This week on the show, Mar­vin, aka Boyo, and Cul­ture gave them­selves up to Al­leyne af­ter he had pre­vi­ous­ly aired a video of the men al­leged­ly steal­ing two truck bat­ter­ies from East Bound­ary Street, Cal­i­for­nia, on June 23.The men met with Al­leyne and re­im­bursed the vic­tim, Steve Ra­j­pat­tee, for the bat­ter­ies, which were val­ued at $5,000.

Ra­j­pat­tee, who was laid off from his job, was al­so asked to pay back for the bat­ter­ies by his em­ploy­ers. He ap­peared on the show to thank Al­leyne for get­ting jus­tice for him. Al­leyne al­so made a pub­lic ap­peal to the com­pa­ny to show mer­cy to­wards Ra­j­pat­tee.In an­oth­er in­ci­dent, Al­leyne aired a video of a man steal­ing a cell­phone from a woman's purse at a med­ical in­sti­tute in San Fer­nan­do.Af­ter an in­ves­ti­ga­tion, Al­leyne dis­cov­ered that the man was no stranger to lar­ce­ny, as he has done this many times be­fore.

Al­leyne made a break­through on the show by re­veal­ing the iden­ti­ty of the thief, who is from the Beetham Gar­dens, Laven­tille.In a dis­turb­ing in­ci­dent, Es­he Lawrence, 14, ran away from home on Sun­day night be­cause of claims that her moth­er was "stress­ing" her out to do chores.Es­he's moth­er Pat­sy Lawrence vis­it­ed Crime­Watch set and told Al­leyne she was un­aware of her daugh­ter's where­abouts, but said she had re­ceived a phone call from her daugh­ter telling her that she was go­ing to the beach. The teen then hung up.

Af­ter Pat­sy ex­plained the sit­u­a­tion to Al­leyne, he prompt­ly told Es­he to 'find her tail home'. With­in two hours af­ter see­ing the pro­gramme, Es­he walked in­to the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion and told of­fi­cers about her sit­u­a­tion. An adult sus­pect in­volved is cur­rent­ly in po­lice cus­tody.Fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tions are be­ing done by the Arou­ca po­lice.Pat­sy thanked Al­leyne and Arou­ca po­lice for their quick ac­tion and re­sults.

Break­throughs

Af­ter the pic­ture of a stolen Brown Nis­san Sen­tra, li­censed PBM 906, was aired on Crime Watch on Wednes­day, the ve­hi­cle was lo­cat­ed and in­ter­cept­ed im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter the pro­gramme was fin­ished by po­lice from the Ca­roni sta­tion.A sus­pect was ap­pre­hend­ed but he claims to have bought the ve­hi­cle from an­oth­er in­di­vid­ual and claimed to have re­ceipts to prove this.Ca­roni po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.

Un­solved mys­ter­ies

Al­leyne is in­ves­ti­gat­ing the case in which Car­los Hos­ford was shot sev­er­al times at a pop­u­lar bar in San­gre Grande.The sus­pect is yet to be iden­ti­fied.


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