GUARDIAN ME­DIA NEWS­ROOM

Arnold Pooran, a 19-year-old from Friend­ship Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, has been iden­ti­fied as the man found dead in a drain be­hind a busi­ness in Cou­va on Sun­day, Sep­tem­ber15th.

Pooran, who is orig­i­nal­ly from Spring Trace, War­den Road, Point Fortin, had been re­port­ed miss­ing af­ter his fam­i­ly last heard from him on Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber12th.

He re­port­ed­ly told his moth­er he was "go­ing with a friend to hus­tle" be­fore leav­ing his home.

Pooran, along with two oth­er men, al­leged­ly broke in­to Casa En­ter­pris­es on South­ern Main Road Mc Bean, Cou­va.  They were sub­se­quent­ly pur­sued by po­lice and se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers.

Pooran's body was dis­cov­ered in a drain be­hind the busi­ness place on Sun­day. 

In ad­di­tion, hy­brid bat­ter­ies which had been stolen from sev­er­al ve­hi­cles on the com­pa­ny’s com­pound were found hid­den in near­by bush­es.