Four years hard labour for larceny

Marcano pleaded guilty to the charges laid by PC Shaquille Charles of the San Fernando CID. Police court prosecutor Sgt Chanardath Jhilmit told the court that on April 5 at about 5.30pm, the owner of a business place along Cipero Road , San Fernando secured his business place and left for the day. The court heard the business owner returned at 10.14 am the following day and discovered his place broken into. Alert heard that a glass window on the northen side of the building was smashed . Checks revealed that a quantity of garbage bags and several cartoons of cigarettes valued $1,392 were missing . The prosecutor said when Marcano was arrested, he told the police complainant that he was an “ole breaker” and he would sell the stolen items to a drug pusher to get money and “a smoke”.

Jhilmit said on April 3, Marcano stole a fan valued $400 from a business place along Coffee Street , San Fernando.

The court heard that on April 11, Marcano stole a teak table valued at $1,800 from a furniture store along Coffee Street, San Fernando.

The prosecutor said while conducting investigations, PC Charles caught Marcano red-handed walking in San Fernando with the stolen table.

Upon his arrest, Marcano admitted he stole the table from the said business place. Reviewing Marcano’s criminal record, the magistrate said the accused had 31 convictions, six of which occurred within the last ten years. The magistrate said four of the six convictions were larceny related offences.

Marcano, who was unrepresented, said he was willing to change his life. “I started to check on myself and say I have to change,” he said. The magistrate in further questioning him said, Marcano knew all of this before he interfered with people’s property.

In sentencing Marcano , the magistrate said that he had to take into consideration his track record. On the charge of store breaking and larceny he was sentenced to four years hard labour. On the two charges of larceny, Marcano was sentenced to four months each hard labour for the fan and table . The sentences are to run concurrently