An In­di­an na­tion­al was among three per­sons who were grant­ed $350,000 bail to­day af­ter ap­pear­ing vir­tu­al­ly be­fore a San­gre Grande Mag­is­trate charged with ware­house break­ing and lar­ce­ny.

The three, Maniel Masih, 40, of Makhan Road, Jern­ing­ham Junc­tion Road, Char­lieville, Don­ald Smith, 28, of Felmi­na To­bal Road, North Oropouche Road, San­gre Grande, and Shaniel Pierre, 27, of Sug­ar Hill Ter­race Ram­panal­gas Vil­lage, Ba­lan­dra, were ar­rest­ed and charged by PC Nanan, of the East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (EDTF) fol­low­ing ex­ten­sive in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a re­port of a break-in at a ware­house at the In­door Sport­ing Fa­cil­i­ty in San­gre Grande on May 15th.

Masih, who is orig­i­nal­ly from In­dia, was al­so charged with re­ceiv­ing stolen prop­er­ty. Smith and Pierre are em­ployed as se­cu­ri­ty guards at the fa­cil­i­ty. All will reap­pear be­fore the court on June 15th, 2021.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, se­cu­ri­ty per­son­nel at­tached to the In­door Sport­ing Fa­cil­i­ty, Ojoe Road, San­gre Grande, told po­lice that three male sus­pects ar­rived at the lo­ca­tion and in­di­cat­ed that they were of­fi­cials at­tached to the Min­istry of Sports there to con­duct a site vis­it.

The se­cu­ri­ty guards fur­ther re­port­ed to po­lice that the men pro­ceed­ed to the wa­ter heater rooms where one of them used a key, which he had in his pos­ses­sion, and opened the doors to the room. The of­fi­cials fur­ther stat­ed that the sus­pects re­moved 11 wa­ter heaters and loaded them in­to the en­closed tray of the truck.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion was launched and po­lice sub­se­quent­ly re­cov­ered the items val­ued at $100,000. Fur­ther en­quiries re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of Smith and Pierre who were charged with ware­house break­ing and lar­ce­ny.

Masih was sub­se­quent­ly charged with ware­house break­ing and lar­ce­ny and re­ceiv­ing stolen goods. The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was head­ed by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent, East­ern Di­vi­sion, Chan­dool, Supt Ryan Khan, In­sp Cal­len­der and with field op­er­a­tions by Sgt Khan and PCs Nanan, Williams, Smart and WPCs Patrice and Phillip.