A 30-year-old man has been sen­tenced to 12 months hard labour for a rob­bery in­ci­dent that oc­curred at a San­gre Grande mi­ni-mart in De­cem­ber 2022.  

Olure­mi Ed­wards, of Guaico, San­gre Grande, plead­ed guilty to the of­fence when he ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate Cheron Raphael at the San­gre Grande Dis­trict Court.  

He was charged on Sun­day by PC Samuel of the San­gre Grande Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID) for the of­fence of Rob­bery with Ag­gra­va­tion.  

The charge came fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a De­cem­ber 13, 2022 po­lice re­port in which a pro­pri­etor told po­lice that, while  

con­duct­ing sales at his busi­ness place, a man en­tered and pro­ceed­ed to rob him.  

Dur­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, CID de­tec­tives learned that the busi­ness­man was robbed of a quan­ti­ty of gro­cery items, cash and a Sam­sung A02 cel­lu­lar phone.  

Fol­low­ing leads in­to the re­port, a par­ty of of­fi­cers then mount­ed a sur­veil­lance ex­er­cise which led them to the East­ern Main Road,  

Guaico, San­gre Grande, where they spot­ted a man fit­ting the de­scrip­tion of the sus­pect­ed per­pe­tra­tor.  

The sus­pect was lat­er held a short dis­tance away with the as­sis­tance of per­son­nel from the East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force.