Thieves who broke in­to the Mon­trose Vedic Pri­ma­ry School on the week­end made off with $2,000 in cash.In a bid to cov­er their tracks and pre­vent po­lice from iden­ti­fy­ing them, they stole the DVR for the school’s cam­era sys­tem.The break-in was dis­cov­ered around 5.55 am on Sun­day by a se­cu­ri­ty guard on pa­trol.The woman, who is em­ployed by the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny (MTS), had been car­ry­ing out checks around the com­pound, which is lo­cat­ed at Eleanor Street, Ch­agua­nas, when she saw the lock on the gate to the prin­ci­pal’s of­fice bro­ken and the door forced open. Up­on in­ves­ti­gat­ing, she dis­cov­ered the of­fice ran­sacked. The guard con­tact­ed the prin­ci­pal, who con­firmed lock­ing the ad­min­is­tra­tion of­fice be­fore leav­ing around 4.30 pm on Fri­day.Up­on ar­rival, the prin­ci­pal con­firmed the mon­ey, which was on a clip­board on a desk in the of­fice, was miss­ing.The school’s DVR sys­tem was lat­er dis­cov­ered miss­ing.Po­lice be­lieve the thieves gained en­try to the school’s com­pound by cut­ting the pad­lock on the back gate.

Es­capee held

Less than one week af­ter es­cap­ing po­lice cus­tody on Oc­to­ber 31, pris­on­er Mick­el Singh was re­cap­tured by of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF), led by Snr Supt Roger Alexan­der.

The 22-year-old, who lives at St Michael’s Road, Tacarigua, es­caped from the Tu­na­puna Po­lice Sta­tion short­ly af­ter he was de­nied bail by a mag­is­trate on gun-re­lat­ed charges.

He was held by of­fi­cers at Pe­ters­field Road, Ch­agua­nas, at 5.30 pm on Sun­day. He was ini­tial­ly charged with pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion, and was re­fused bail.

vir­tu­al­ly be­fore Mag­is­trate In­dra Ramoo-Haynes in the Tu­na­puna Third Court around 10.45 am on Oc­to­ber 31.

At the time of that hear­ing, Singh had been housed at the Tu­na­puna Po­lice Sta­tion.

A few min­utes lat­er, a check was made for him and an alarm was raised af­ter it was dis­cov­ered that he was miss­ing.

CCTV footage re­vealed Singh climbed the perime­ter wall and en­tered the Tu­na­puna Boys Gov­ern­ment School which is lo­cat­ed next door to the po­lice sta­tion, be­fore ex­it­ing and stop­ping a maxi on the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route.