Four men, in­clud­ing a 13-year-old boy, were held by sev­er­al fire of­fi­cers they had ear­li­er robbed at the San­gre Grande Fire Sta­tion in the ear­ly hours yes­ter­day.

The theft al­leged­ly oc­curred be­tween 1 am and 2.10 am.

Po­lice said one of the vic­tims had just com­plet­ed his shift and, while pack­ing up to leave the sta­tion, he re­alised his cell phone, charg­er, cologne, and head­set were miss­ing.

At the same time, an­oth­er of­fi­cer re­port­ed his phone and watch were al­so miss­ing.

Alert­ing all the oth­er of­fi­cers present, a thor­ough search of the com­pound was car­ried out.

Af­ter speak­ing with res­i­dents liv­ing close by, one of the vic­tims learned that sev­er­al young men from the area had been seen walk­ing around the com­pound.

Up­on check­ing, a third fire­man no­ticed the dri­ver’s door to his van open and his phone charg­er, lighter, and two packs of cig­a­rettes miss­ing. The cafe­te­ria of the sta­tion was al­so bro­ken in­to. The of­fi­cers con­tact­ed the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion, and while on the way to make a for­mal re­port around 2.45 am, they were alert­ed by a res­i­dent that the same group of men seen at the fire sta­tion ear­li­er was walk­ing to­wards the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal.

The fire of­fi­cers stopped the group, with some im­me­di­ate­ly con­fess­ing to the theft, while two oth­ers de­nied any in­volve­ment.

The four sus­pects were lat­er hand­ed over to the po­lice. — An­na-Lisa Paul