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Thursday, May 15, 2025

Two held after Pennywise robbery told to apply to judge for bail

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Sascha Wilson
957 days ago
20220930

Two men who were ar­rest­ed dur­ing a man­hunt for the sus­pects in the fa­tal Pen­ny­wise Plaza rob­bery now have to ap­ply to a judge for bail. Christo­pher Nor­eiga and Brent Wal­cott were de­nied bail by Se­nior Mag­is­trate Armi­na De­onar­i­nesingh when they reap­peared in the San Fer­nan­do Charge Court on Thurs­day.

Ob­ject­ing to bail, pros­e­cu­tor Sgt Harold Ish­mael not­ed that the type of firearms they were al­leged­ly held with are deemed pro­hib­it­ed weapons and ca­pa­ble of caus­ing death on a large scale.

Mak­ing ref­er­ence to the Sep­tem­ber 19 Pen­ny­wise Su­per Cen­tre rob­bery in La Ro­main, in which two se­cu­ri­ty guards were killed and an­oth­er crit­i­cal­ly in­jured, the pros­e­cu­tor said sim­i­lar weapons were used in that in­ci­dent.

Four of the six sus­pects in­volved in the dead­ly heist were sub­se­quent­ly killed by the po­lice at a house in La Ro­main.

Wal­cott and Nor­eiga are charged with pos­ses­sion of two AR-15 ri­fles, three mag­a­zines and 38 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing.

The two ini­tial­ly ap­peared in court on Tues­day and were re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody for the po­lice to con­duct fin­ger­print trac­ings to de­ter­mine if they had pre­vi­ous con­vic­tions or pend­ing mat­ters.

How­ev­er, Ish­mael told Mag­is­trate De­onar­i­nesingh that the trac­ing was not done be­cause the po­lice fin­ger­print da­ta sys­tem was not work­ing. He said the po­lice al­so had an is­sue ver­i­fy­ing the ad­dress­es for Wal­cott and Nor­eiga.

It is al­leged that on Sep­tem­ber 20, the day af­ter the Pen­ny­wise rob­bery, the po­lice were on an ex­er­cise at Kalloo Street, when they al­leged­ly saw the ac­cused ex­am­in­ing two firearms.

When the two saw the po­lice they al­leged­ly ran through the bush­es and es­caped. It is al­leged that they left be­hind the two as­sault ri­fles, mag­a­zines and am­mu­ni­tion.

How­ev­er, the men were lat­er ar­rest­ed and charged by PC Collin Le­gendre.

The ex­hibits were shown to the court.

The men were re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody and ad­vised of their right to ap­ply to a judge in cham­bers for bail.


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