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Monday, July 21, 2025

Granny on larceny charges denied bail

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A Rio Claro grand­moth­er ac­cused of trick­ing five peo­ple in­to giv­ing her $150,000 in ex­change for Gov­ern­ment hous­es was yes­ter­day re­mand­ed to the Women's Prison, Arou­ca.

Soomaria Ma­ha­bal, 59, who was ar­rest­ed at her home Deep Ravine Road on Fri­day ap­peared in the San Fer­nan­do First Mag­is­trates' Court on five charges of lar­ce­ny by trick.

It is al­leged that she took sums of mon­ey, to­talling $153,270, from five peo­ple in Rio Claro be­tween June and Au­gust 2015.

The charges arose from an al­le­ga­tion that she took the mon­ey claim­ing she was in a po­si­tion to se­cure hous­ing units for them from the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion.

The moth­er of four was charged on Sat­ur­day by PCs David Cum­mings and Aaron Ram­di­al of the Fraud Squad fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions head­ed by Snr Supt To­taram Dook­ie and su­per­vised by ASP Kent Ghiy­sawan.

Ma­ha­bal's at­tor­ney, Dee­dra-Lee Mur­ray, re­quest for bail be­fore Deputy Chief Mag­is­trate Nanette Forde John was turned down.

In­stead, Forde-John trans­ferred the mat­ter to the Rio Claro Mag­is­trates' Court for to­day and re­mand­ed Ma­ha­bal in­to cus­tody.


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