Five men are sched­uled to go be­fore a San­gre Grande Mag­is­trate in a vir­tu­al hear­ing to­day, af­ter be­ing ar­rest­ed and charged for at­tempt­ing to steal a kayak.

The kayak in ques­tioned has been val­ued at $2,300.

A re­lease from the Po­lice Ser­vice re­ports that 22-year-old MAR­LON AN­THO­NY MA­RINE, 20-year-old BRI­AN MATHU­RA, 24-year-old AN­TO­NIO RAHIM, 20-year-old JAH­MALI BONN, and 20-year-old JA­MAL PA­PONETTE, all have been of­fi­cial­ly charged with ware­house break­ing and lar­ce­ny.

Re­ports are that around 5 am on Wednes­day 16th De­cem­ber 2020, the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion was alert­ed to the in­ci­dent by se­cu­ri­ty per­son­nel tasked with guard­ing kayak­ing equip­ment in Matu­ra.

The se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer re­port­ed hear­ing a loud noise com­ing from the build­ing.  Up­on check­ing the area, he saw five men re­mov­ing a kayak from the build­ing.

The men, in an at­tempt to es­cape, dropped the kayak and en­tered a near­by ve­hi­cle. They were in­ter­cept­ed by of­fi­cers from the San­gre Grande Sta­tion who were re­spond­ing to the call.

The oc­cu­pants were de­tained and lat­er charged for the of­fence ware­house break­ing and lar­ce­ny.