Four men were charged with house­break­ing, lar­ce­ny and as­sault-re­lat­ed of­fences, aris­ing out of sep­a­rate in­ci­dents which oc­curred in the North­ern Di­vi­sion on June 8th, 2022, and ap­peared be­fore an Ari­ma Mag­is­trate yes­ter­day.

De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from the TTPS:

Four men ap­peared be­fore an Ari­ma Mag­is­trate yes­ter­day, af­ter they were charged with house­break­ing, lar­ce­ny and as­sault re­lat­ed of­fences, aris­ing out of sep­a­rate in­ci­dents which oc­curred in the North­ern Di­vi­sion on June 8th, 2022.

KI­RAN MA­HARAJ, 26, MIN­FORD AL­ICK, 25, both of Arou­ca and TES­FA SUTHER­LAND, 20, of D’Abadie, were charged with house break­ing and lar­ce­ny, while SHAQUILLE NEP­TUNE, of Mal­oney Gar­dens, was charged with as­sault with in­tent to rob and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion.

MA­HARAJ plead­ed guilty to the charges and was fined $5,000, or in de­fault to serve 18 months’ hard labour. How­ev­er, AL­ICK and SUTHER­LAND, who both plead­ed not guilty to the charges, were de­nied bail and re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody for 120 days.

Mean­while, NEP­TUNE plead­ed not guilty to his charges, was de­nied bail and re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody for 120 days.

MA­HARAJ, AL­ICK and SUTHER­LAND were ar­rest­ed on June 8th 2022, dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cise, af­ter three men al­leged­ly broke in­to a house lo­cat­ed at Mal­oney Gar­dens and stole sev­er­al items, on that same date. Up­on re­ceiv­ing the re­port of the in­ci­dent, of­fi­cers im­me­di­ate­ly sprang in­to ac­tion, con­duct­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions which re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of the three ac­cused. The stolen items were re­cov­ered at a Mal­oney Gar­dens apart­ment.

NEP­TUNE was al­so ar­rest­ed dur­ing the same in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cise as the oth­er three ac­cused. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, an armed man al­leged­ly en­tered a Mal­oney Gar­dens mi­ni-mart and an­nounced a rob­bery. The shop own­er raised an alarm, which caused the as­sailant to flee the scene in a sil­ver Nis­san Ti­i­da ve­hi­cle.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tions were spear­head­ed by Snr. Supt. Christo­pher Pa­ponette, Supt. Ed­wards and ASP Et­ti­enne. It was su­per­vised by Sgt. Guel­mo of the Mal­oney Po­lice Sta­tion and Sgt. Bisses­sar of the Mal­oney Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID) with as­sis­tance from of­fi­cers of the Mal­oney Charge Room and CID.