KEVON FELMINE & SASCHA WILSON
Although they presented the requested documents in order to access bail, PC Shaundelle Euin and welder Gregory James were again denied bail when they reappeared in the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court charged with the kidnapping of Natalie Pollonais.
On Tuesday, Senior Magistrate Cherril-Anne Antoine told Euin that if he could surrender his passport to the court he would be granted bail. Antoine also told James if he could provide a court extract to prove that his previous charges for larceny had been dismissed he too would be granted bail.
However, when the men were taken before her today, Antoine informed them that under the Bail Amendment Act kidnapping for ransom was not a bailable offence.
Euin, 24, of Gasparillo, who was stationed at the La Romaine Police Post and James, 50, of La Brea, were charged with kidnapping Pollonais for ransom on September 6.
Pollonais, 49, of Palmiste, is the wife of Jason Pollonais, a director of the South Oropouche-based Inland and Offshore Contractors Ltd (IOCL). On September 6, she disappeared after visiting the Central Athletic Club gym and some stores at C3 Centre, Ste Madeleine. CCTV footage showed she left in her BMW 5308 hybrid sedan around 11.30 am. Her husband reported her missing when she did not return home. On that night, San Fernando CID and Southern Division Task Force found her car abandoned in the parking lot of an apartment building at Cypress Hills, Union Hall.
Pollonais' kidnappers contacted her family and demanded a ransom for her return. After four days of surveillance and intelligence gathering, police intercepted a white Nissan AD Wagon along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway in El Socorro, San Juan, and rescued Pollonais.