Teens held with stolen liquor

MORVANT police arrested two teenaged burglars an hour after they broke into an El Socorro restaurant and made off with thousands of dollars in liquor.

Businessman Ricardo Samaroo was in high praise of the police who recovered $7,000 worth of liquor which had been stolen from Master’s Restaurant and Bar. The teen suspects are due to appear before a Port-of-Spain magistrate today on the charge of shop-breaking and larceny. The charge was laid by Ag Cpl Baird. According to police reports, Ag Cpl Baird, PC Mohammed and PC Hoyte were on a special night patrol in Morvant, San Juan and El Socorro. The special patrol was instituted by head of North-Eastern Division Snr Supt Desmond Lambert, following a spate of robberies and break-ins in the said areas.

Around 12.30 am yesterday, the officers spotted two 18-year-old young men walking along El Socorro Road, San Juan, with crocus. They were stopped and searched and the officers discovered bottles of liquor of varying brands in the bags. Follow up investigations by the police revealed that an hour before the teens were arrested, Master’s Restaurant and Bar, located on El Socorro Road, had been broken into. Samaroo was contacted by the police and went to the police station where he identified the bottles of liquor as the ones stolen from his businessplace. The teens, one from El Socorro Road, San Juan, and the other from Bhim Bhim Trace, El Socorro, were subsequently charged.