Po­lice are search­ing for a man who broke in­to a poul­try de­pot in Ari­ma on Tues­day evening but fled the scene, leav­ing be­hind his wal­let and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion card.

Of­fi­cers said the shop’s own­er re­ceived a call from his land­lord at 6.55 pm, in­form­ing him that some­one had bro­ken in­to the Tumpuna Road busi­ness place and dam­aged a point-of-sale print­er, eggs, and a cut­ting ma­chine.

The land­lord re­port­ed­ly con­front­ed the ban­dit, who ran off and dropped his wal­let con­tain­ing his na­tion­al ID card.

When of­fi­cers from the Ari­ma Po­lice Sta­tion ar­rived, they found ev­i­dence that the man had tried un­suc­cess­ful­ly to cut a lock on the bur­glar-proof­ing. - SS

Three in court for re­cent mur­ders

Three sus­pects have ap­peared in court in con­nec­tion with three re­cent homi­cides.

A state­ment from the TTPs said in the first court mat­ter, Fi­del Mc Lean, 28, a labour­er, of Princes Town, ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Gray, at the South Court ‘B’, on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 5, charged with the mur­der of She­wayne Balka­ran. Po­lice said the mur­der oc­curred on Au­gust 25 in the Princes Town dis­trict.

The Suf­fi­cien­cy Hear­ing date has been set for June 26, 2026.

Po­lice said Balka­ran was found with a stab wound to the neck fol­low­ing an al­leged ar­gu­ment with two men ear­li­er that day. One male sus­pect was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the mat­ter fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

McLean was charged with the of­fence by Cpl Grif­fith of the HBI Re­gion, Three, on Sep­tem­ber 4.

In the sec­ond mat­ter, Pe­ter McIn­tosh, 49, of Ce­dros, ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Am­brose-Per­sads­ingh, at the South Court ‘A’, on Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 8, charged with the mur­der of Ed­win Williams, which oc­curred on Au­gust 22 in the Point Fortin dis­trict. Williams was found dead with stab wounds at the Old Clifton Hill Beach Fa­cil­i­ty, fol­low­ing an al­leged al­ter­ca­tion.

In the third in­ci­dent, Shan­non Jag­gan, 43, ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Liebert, in the North Court ‘C’, last week, charged with the mur­der of Ravi Pan­do­hie, which oc­curred on Au­gust 14, in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion.

The Suf­fi­cien­cy Hear­ing date has been set for May 1, 2026. Pan­do­hie was at his Cen­tral home on Au­gust 10, when a man al­leged­ly en­tered and as­sault­ed him with a piece of wood.

The vic­tim was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal for treat­ment, where he sub­se­quent­ly suc­cumbed to his in­juries on Au­gust 14. One man was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the mat­ter on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 2.

Jag­gan was charged with the of­fence two days lat­er.