Four men were de­nied bail when they ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly at the San Fer­nan­do and Princes Town Mag­is­trates Court on Wednes­day charged with var­i­ous of­fences. The men will reap­pear be­fore the courts on Au­gust 8th. 

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports on Ju­ly 26th, po­lice were on mo­bile pa­trol when they stopped a white Toy­ota Aqua ve­hi­cle with four oc­cu­pants. Dur­ing the stop, po­lice searched the ve­hi­cle and al­leged­ly dis­cov­ered one chrome with black han­dle Tau­rus re­volver con­tain­ing four rounds of am­mu­ni­tion in the ve­hi­cle. The men were ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the Gas­par­il­lo Po­lice Sta­tion where they were iden­ti­fied as sus­pects in on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions. 

The four men are Rochard Manoram, 26, of up­per Dar­rius Val­ley Road, Bel­mont, Jamel Samuel, 27, of Laven­tille, Stephe Stew­art, 28, of Mc Kai Lane, Up­per Bel­mont Val­ley Road, Bel­mont and Aaron Wheel­er, 31, of Ari­ma. Fol­low­ing the probe, PC Balka­ran charged the four men with pos­ses­sion of a firearm and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion on Au­gust 2nd, 2022. 

The mat­ter was heard at the San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trate Court and post­poned to Au­gust 8th. Mean­while, Stew­art was pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fied in rob­beries oc­cur­ring in the Princes Town area be­tween May 25th to June 16th, 2022. He was sub­se­quent­ly charged on Au­gust 2nd, 2022, with four counts of rob­bery with ag­gra­va­tion and sev­en counts of rob­bery with vi­o­lence while co-ac­cused Wheel­er was ad­di­tion­al­ly charged with sev­en counts of rob­bery with vi­o­lence and one count of rob­bery with ag­gra­va­tion. 

Stew­art and Wheel­er are ex­pect­ed to reap­pear be­fore the Princes Town Mag­is­trates’ Court on Au­gust 8th, 2022.