Cops nab 7 with stolen Lara items
Rickie Ramdass
rickie.ramdass@trinidadexpress.com
Wednesday, February 10th 2010
POLICE believe they may be one step closer to finding the person(s) responsible for robbing former West Indies cricket captain Brian Lara, after seven men were arrested in El Socorro yesterday morning, with items belonging to him.
The seven-six Guyanese and a Jamaican national-were arrested at a house on Farouk Avenue, around 4 a.m., during a raid spearheaded by Insp Sahadeo Singh of the Besson Street Police Station. The raid included officers from the Inter Agency Task Force (IATF), Guard and Emergency Branch (GEB) and the Criminal Intelligence Department (CID).
The officers reportedly found five laptop computers, one of which belonged to Lara, a pair of batting pads and an autographed cricket bat. Of the seven arrested, police said four of them were in the country illegally. Up to yesterday evening they were being interrogated at the Central Police Station on St Vincent Street, Port of Spain.
The items were not part of those stolen from Lara’s Lady Chancellor home last week and police believed that the items found had been taken over a period of time. Last Tuesday a safe containing cash, jewelry, clothing and an honorary Order of Australia, which was given to Lara during the hosting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government last year by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, were stolen.
Tickets to the upcoming Beyonce I AM concert, were also stolen. The cost of the items stolen last week had been estimated at close to $1 million.
On Monday, Annmarie Marcano, 54, a former housekeeper, of Lara appeared before a Port of Spain magistrate charged with stealing items from him between the period January 2005, and February 3.
Marcano, who lived at Cameron Hill, Maraval, was charged with stealing one bottle of Angostura Master Blend rum, nine Oakley sunglasses valued at US$300 each, five tie pins with ’400’ engraved on them, and other items.
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