Two charged for breaking into church

TWO men were supposed to have appeared before a Chaguanas magistrate yesterday charged with sacrilege after a team of Chaguanas police officers reportedly caught the men red-handed leaving a church they had just broken into, taking with them over $20,000 in musical equipment on Monday morning.

According to police reports, around 10 am, Randolph Rampaul, the pastor of the House of God Church at the corner of Pepper Sauce and Endeavour Roads, Chaguanas, secured the church and left. At 11.45 am, a team of Chaguanas CID officers on morning patrol spotted two men, aged 19 and 23, both from Longdenville, leaving the church. The officers stopped and searched the men, who were found with over $20,000 in musical equipment. The officers checked the church premises and noticed a door had been forced in. The two men were arrested and subsequently charged for the offence. Pastor Rampaul later identified the equipment as belonging to the church. And in an unrelated incident, Couva police have begun investigations into the robbing of a businessman on Monday night.

According to police reports, around 7.30 pm, Azard Khan, 36, proprietor of Coffee on the Line located at Southern Main Road, Couva, was conducting business when a man entered the store and announced a hold-up. The man forced Khan to hand over a gold chain worth $2,000 and his wallet which contained over $1,500 cash. The man then ran out of the store and escaped on foot.