Four men who ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly at the San Fer­nan­do and Princes Town Mag­is­trates Court on Wednes­day were re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody pend­ing con­tact trac­ing for var­i­ous of­fences.

The men will reap­pear be­fore the courts on Au­gust 8th, 2022. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports on Ju­ly 26th, 2022, po­lice were on mo­bile pa­trol when they stopped a white Toy­ota Aqua ve­hi­cle with four oc­cu­pants.

Dur­ing the stop, po­lice searched the ve­hi­cle dur­ing which they al­leged­ly dis­cov­ered one chrome with black han­dle Tau­rus re­volver con­tain­ing four rounds of am­mu­ni­tion in the ve­hi­cle.

The men were im­me­di­ate­ly ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the Gas­par­il­lo Po­lice Sta­tion where they were iden­ti­fied as sus­pects in­to on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

They are Rochard Manoram, 26, of up­per Dar­rius Val­ley Road, Bel­mont, Jamel Samuel, 27, of Laven­tille, Stephan Stew­art, 28, of Mc Kai Lane, Up­per Bel­mont Val­ley Road, Bel­mont and Aaron Wheel­er, 31, of Ari­ma. Fol­low­ing the probe, PC Balka­ran charged Manoram, Samuel, Stew­art and Wheel­er for the of­fences of 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, 2022.

Mean­while, Stew­art was pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fied in rob­beries oc­cur­ring in the Princes Town area be­tween May 25th to June 16th, 2022. Stew­art 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.

JAMAL SAMUEL

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RASHAD MANORAM

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STEPHEN STEWART

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