A Goed Fortuin family is alleging that,
yesterday morning,
two
plainclothes ranks
entered their home and removed music
equipment valued at approximately $400,000, along with $162,000 in
cash and jewellery.
Speedboat Monitor for the Demerara River Speedboat Association,
Steve Narine, said that, at approximately 8:30 hours yesterday, the
ranks turned up at his Goed Fortuin home after they reportedly
received complaints of a noise nuisance coming from the vicinity of
his (Narine) home.
David-de-Caires
Stolen
TV replaced Office
of the President and more charges
Low-paid-teachers
A
gold chain and
$162,000 in cash stolen
“I got a small set,” said Narine, “but is not me mekkin de
noise. Dem church people de testing out de music for a rally they
was going to have.” He added that the rally was supposed to be in
the form of a parade from Patentia, West Bank Demerara to the Vreed-en-Hoop
junction.
Narine added that he has always had problems with some of his
neighbours, because of an altercation in the past, and he alleges
that the neighbours summoned the police.
He maintained that there was no music coming from his house, and he
assumed that, when the complaint was made, the police would have
heard the music coming from the church. Instead, they came thinking
that the music was coming from his house, he said.
According to Narine, he was not at home when the police ranks
arrived, but his reputed wife of 23 years, Pamela Dwarka, was at
home. She said that the plainclothes police arrived and asked if
they (she and Narine) owned a music set.
She said that the ranks then asked to see it, when she answered in
the affirmative. She added that she pointed to one of the speaker
boxes, and then the police ranks said they wanted to come into the
house to see the set.
She said that she pointed out that they were not dressed in uniform,
and as such she did not know if they were really from the police.
She said she told them that they could not enter her home. It was at
this point that the police apparently barged into the house, went
over to the music set and began to remove the wires which connected
the various components of the set.
Dwarka said that she tried to intervene, but the police ranks pushed
her to the ground. She reported that she injured her back, and later
she started ‘spotting’.
Her reputed husband took her to the West Demerara Regional Hospital
(WDRH), where she received treatment.
The police ranks apparently loaded the various amplifiers, three DVD
players, an equalizer, the amplifier control system, a tape deck and
a VCR (a total value of approximately $400,000) into a red
car which was parked outside of the Goed Fortuin residence.
It was at this point that Narine arrived home, after Dwarka called
him and told him what was transpiring.
“Ah come home fuh see dem men (police) done load up me equipment
in de car,” said Narine. “So I tell dem fuh wait leh me go an
see if anything else missing from de house, because I don’t know
if they tek anything else.”
He went inside to check to see if anything else was missing, and by
the time he had come back outside, the police ranks had already
departed for the La Grange Police Station. They reportedly told
Dwarka to come to the station at 13:00 hours, but failed to say why
they wanted her at the station.
When he searched his house, Narine said, he found a gold chain and
$162,000 in cash missing.
The chain was apparently taken from his bedroom, while the cash was
removed from on top of a wall divider in his house.
Tuesday, December 16,
2008