An­na Lisa Paul

Four men, in­clud­ing a 13-year-old boy, have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with an al­leged rob­bery at the San­gre Grande Fire Sta­tion in the ear­ly hours of Oc­to­ber 27.

Re­ports in­di­cate the theft oc­curred be­tween 1 am and 2.10 am. One fire of­fi­cer, who had just com­plet­ed his shift, dis­cov­ered his mo­bile phone, charg­er, cologne, and head­set were miss­ing as he pre­pared to leave the sta­tion to col­lect the of­fi­cer re­liev­ing him. An­oth­er of­fi­cer re­port­ed his phone and watch were al­so stolen.

Alert­ed to the sit­u­a­tion, oth­er of­fi­cers con­duct­ed a thor­ough search of the com­pound. Af­ter speak­ing with near­by res­i­dents, one of the vic­tims learned that sev­er­al young men from the area had been seen walk­ing around the sta­tion.

Mean­while, a third of­fi­cer no­ticed the dri­ver’s door of his van was open, and items in­clud­ing a phone charg­er, lighter, and two packs of cig­a­rettes were miss­ing. The of­fi­cers con­tact­ed the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion and were in­struct­ed to come in to file a for­mal re­port.

As they pre­pared to leave around 2.45 am, res­i­dents in­formed them that the same group of young men had been seen walk­ing to­wards the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal. Fire of­fi­cers and col­leagues in­ter­cept­ed the group out­side the hos­pi­tal and ques­tioned them. Sev­er­al re­port­ed­ly con­fessed to steal­ing the of­fi­cers’ be­long­ings, while a few de­nied in­volve­ment.

The four sus­pects were tak­en to the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion and hand­ed over to au­thor­i­ties. Fire of­fi­cers lat­er con­firmed that the sta­tion’s cafe­te­ria had al­so been bro­ken in­to dur­ing the in­ci­dent.