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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Crime Watch

Suspect caught, cohort surrenders

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20140419

A week of suc­cess­es on CRIME­WATCH this week as host Ian Al­leyne start­ed with a bang, show­ing video of men steal­ing from a gold Hon­da civic with black rims out­side a bar on the Ca­roni Sa­van­nah Road, Ch­agua­nas.The men, whom Al­leyne iden­ti­fied as on­ly "Socks" and "Greedy," were ac­com­pa­nied on their mis­sion by a stout uniden­ti­fied la­dy.

Al­leyne al­leged that the men were em­ployed by a pop­u­lar car deal­er whose busi­ness is lo­cat­ed in Cen­tral. The video was al­so brought to the at­ten­tion of As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent of Po­lice (Cen­tral Di­vi­sion) John­ny Abra­ham.Hours af­ter the footage aired on CRIME­WATCH one of the men was ar­rest­ed and an­oth­er lat­er sur­ren­dered to po­lice.Al­leyne ad­mit­ted he knows the fam­i­ly of the car deal­er well, but said, "They can­not be en­cour­ag­ing peo­ple to steal. The right thing is the right thing."

Al­so this week, 79-year-old Lawrence Ram­soon­dar ap­pealed to Al­leyne for help, telling him he bought a ve­hi­cle from Vish­nu "Vishram" Siew, of Rail­way Road, Long­denville, Ch­agua­nas, in No­vem­ber 2012.He al­leged that it was on­ly af­ter he took pos­ses­sion of the ve­hi­cle that he re­alised it had been tam­pered with. He brought it to the at­ten­tion of Siew, who took the ve­hi­cle with a promise that it would be re­turned. How­ev­er, Ram­soon­dar says he had been try­ing for sev­er­al months to get in touch with Siew but to no avail.

Hours af­ter the sto­ry aired on CRIME­WATCH Al­leyne got in con­tact with Siew and both he and Ram­soon­dar came to the show. Siew ad­mit­ted there was an is­sue with the ve­hi­cle and he had tak­en it. He of­fered to ei­ther re­turn the ve­hi­cle to Ram­soon­dar or give him mon­ey for it.Al­leyne urged Ram­soon­dar to take the ve­hi­cle. The han­dover took place in the GML carpark on the evening April 15th. Ram­soon­dar re­turned to the show on Wednes­day to thank Al­leyne for help­ing him get the ve­hi­cle back.

Al­leyne al­so brought one of his friends, Tony, a straight­en­er and a painter, to look at the ve­hi­cle and fix it. Ram­soon­dar de­clared "that is wet­ting af­ter wet­ting" and wished Al­leyne long life and good health for all his help.And an em­ploy­ee of a pop­u­lar cloth­ing store at a mall in East Trinidad was caught on cam­era steal­ing a cus­tomer's hand­bag.

The woman, dressed in a blue po­lo and jeans, was seen shift­ing the cus­tomer's hand­bag along a seat placed for cus­tomers in the store. She lat­er brought out a bag filled with garbage, dumped the hand­bag and then threw garbage from a near­by bin in the bag.

The own­er of the hand­bag, who was in the CRIME­WATCH stu­dio, looked on in shock and hor­ror at what the woman had done with her hand­bag. She had nev­er seen the video be­fore. She told Al­leyne the hand­bag and its con­tents were val­ued at over $4,000

Al­leyne was able to get in con­tact with the woman who was seen re­mov­ing the hand­bag. She told him she checked the hand­bag and it was emp­ty. She said she spoke to the floor man­ag­er of the store and was told to throw the bag in the garbage.

But the own­er said when she asked at the front desk of the store no one knew what had hap­pened with to bag. She de­nied that the bag was emp­ty, say­ing she had a Black­ber­ry, mon­ey, make­up, cred­it card, bank card, dri­ver's per­mit and her ID card among oth­er items in the bag.

Af­ter much de­bate over whether the bag was stolen or not, the woman cap­tured in the video re­mov­ing the bag agreed to re­pay the own­er of the hand­bag $2,000. Al­leyne al­so got the woman to agree to re­pay the mon­ey in four tranch­es over four weeks.

UN­SOLVED

Stephen Charles, of up­per Layan Hill, Bel­mont, says he was hired to do a job by Ma­hen­dra Sookram in Jan­u­ary of this year.He said he and his work­men were hired to in­stall Sty­ro­foam for sound­proof­ing on a ceil­ing in a build­ing in Fred­er­ick Set­tle­ment, Ca­roni. He said they com­plet­ed the job and he was paid $15,000 but was still owed $10,500 by Sookram.

Sookram ap­peared on CRIME­WATCH the next day ac­cus­ing Charles of fail­ing to com­plete the job he was hired to do. He is in­sist­ing that Charles needs to do ad­di­tion­al work be­fore he can pay him. But Charles told Al­leyne any ad­di­tion­al work to be done will re­quire ad­di­tion­al pay­ment.

In any event, he said all he wants is the mon­ey owed to him. Both men left the stu­dio with the is­sue as yet un­re­solved. Ma­hen­dra in­sist­ed that if Charles starts the ad­di­tion­al work, he would pay him $3,000 on the first day and the re­main­ing $7,000 when the job is halfway done. Charles blunt­ly re­fused.


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