Carisa Lee

Re­porter

carisa.lee@cnc3.co.tt

Po­lice have re­cov­ered three swords that were stolen from the Ch­aguara­mas Mil­i­tary His­to­ry and Aero­space Mu­se­um (CMHAM) last month.

On April 16, CCTV cam­eras placed around the com­pound cap­tured four bare­backed men en­ter­ing the mu­se­um, which is lo­cat­ed along the West­ern Main Road, Care­nage, and leav­ing with the three swords. A re­port was made one week lat­er on April 22.

The in­trud­ers took a Japan­ese katana, be­lieved to be from the World War I era or ear­li­er, val­ued at $6,600; a Japan­ese wak­iza­shi short sword worth ap­prox­i­mate­ly $3,600; and a repli­ca sword with red be­tween the han­dles. The val­ue of the repli­ca was not pro­vid­ed.

On Tues­day evening, CMHAM’s PRO Kathy-Ann Ed­wards said of­fi­cers from the Care­nage Po­lice Sta­tion, where the re­port was made, called and said the swords were there and could be col­lect­ed.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that one of the sus­pects, a man in his 20s from Laven­tille, took the arte­facts to the po­lice sta­tion af­ter the sto­ry on the theft aired.

How­ev­er, Ed­wards said the mu­se­um will not press charges.

“We not go­ing to court or any­thing; we just hap­py to get the swords back in our pos­ses­sion,” Ed­wards said.

On Car­ni­val Mon­day (March 3), the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty locked the mu­se­um pro­pri­etors out of the premis­es af­ter serv­ing two evic­tion no­tices to the man­age­ment.

But on March 7, the court grant­ed the pro­pri­etors an in­junc­tion, al­low­ing them to re­oc­cu­py the mu­se­um.