A Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment Pri­vate and a 30-year-old man were both de­nied bail af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore a Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trate to­day. The mat­ter was post­poned to June 14 when the men are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore Mag­is­trate Mau­reen Ba­boolal-Gafoor.

PRI­VATE Re­nal­do Wan­za, 22, was charged with two counts of Mis­be­hav­iour in Pub­lic Of­fice; one count to wit the Lar­ce­ny of the Galil As­sault Ri­fle and the oth­er count to wit the sub­se­quent Trans­fer of same, Pos­ses­sion of a Pro­hib­it­ed Weapon and Pos­ses­sion of Am­mu­ni­tion.

While Bran­don Moon­sam­my, 30, of Ma­coya Set­tle­ment, Tu­na­puna, was joint­ly charged with Pri­vate Wan­za for Mis­be­hav­ior in Pub­lic Of­fice to wit Trans­fer­ring a Firearm and Re­ceiv­ing the Galil As­sault Ri­fle know­ing same to be stolen.

Both men were charged on June 11 for the miss­ing Galil As­sault Ri­fle and one mag­a­zine, which were re­port­ed miss­ing from the Pi­o­neer De­part­ment of the Teteron Army Bar­racks, Ch­aguara­mas last Sun­day.

The miss­ing Galil was re­trieved af­ter an ac­tive in­ves­ti­ga­tion on June 9 in the vicin­i­ty of Bellerand Recre­ation­al Park in a black garbage bag to the side of a con­crete struc­ture.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was spear­head­ed by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Hen­ry, In­spec­tor Grant with the sup­port of Sergeant Jeanville, Le­gal Of­fi­cer and lead in­ves­ti­ga­tor Cpl (Ag.) Si­fontis of the West­ern Di­vi­sion.