A 42-year-old man was or­dered to hold a sign stat­ing, “Thou Shall Not Steal,” for three days in front of the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion. Stephen Williams, of Ethel Street, St James, was giv­en the or­der when he ap­peared be­fore a Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trate yes­ter­day charged with at­tempt­ed rob­bery. He was al­so placed on a bond that was set at $2,000 and in­struct­ed to keep the peace for one year.

Williams was ar­rest­ed and lat­er charged by PC Mc­David, of the Wood­brook Po­lice Sta­tion Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID), fol­low­ing a re­port made by a pro­pri­etor on May 2nd that a man at­tempt­ed to steal a crate of frozen chick­ens.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the pro­pri­etor told them, he se­cured his food es­tab­lish­ment, Texas Ranch, lo­cat­ed along Ari­api­ta Av­enue, and re­tired to sleep in­side around mid­night on May 2nd. He told po­lice that he was awak­ened by strange sounds em­a­nat­ing from out­side the es­tab­lish­ment at 7 am.

When he in­ves­ti­gat­ed, he saw the ac­cused hold­ing a long pipe at­tempt­ing to re­move the case of chick­en val­ued at $3,000. The busi­ness own­er raised an alarm af­ter which the ac­cused ran off. The po­lice were sub­se­quent­ly con­tact­ed and a par­ty of of­fi­cers re­spond­ed and lat­er ar­rest­ed the sus­pect walk­ing along Al­ber­to Street, Wood­brook.