RALPH BAN­WARIE

Quick re­sponse and CCTV footage led to the ar­rest and charg­ing of a 48-year-old man who al­leged­ly stole cook­ing gas tanks from Good­Luck Su­per­mar­ket on Rail­way Road, San­gre Grande.

He has been iden­ti­fied as Steve Thomas, al­so known as 'Blacks'.

The LPG cook­ing gas tanks were re­cov­ered the man has been charged with lar­ce­ny.

Po­lice re­port­ed on Mon­day that around 11:10 am, the own­er of Good­luck Su­per­mar­ket at Rail­way Road, San­gre Grande was alert­ed by a noise com­ing from the east­ern side of the su­per­mar­ket.

He im­me­di­ate­ly made checks to his CCTV mon­i­tor where he saw a man dressed in a black t-shirt, black pants and black hat re­mov­ing LPG gas tanks which were stored on the east­ern side of the premis­es.

No one was giv­en per­mis­sion to take or re­move the gas tanks.

The vic­tim made a re­port to the po­lice.

Ag Cpl Ali and PCs Leza­ma, Bud­hooram and Phillip of San­gre Grande CID re­spond­ed.

Sev­en LPG gas tanks val­ued at $2450 were miss­ing.

Po­lice then went to a house on Walke Street, San­gre Grande where the sev­en red cylin­dri­cal LPG gas tanks were re­cov­ered.