A ran­sacked of­fice, a tam­pered safe, and a miss­ing elec­tric­i­ty me­ter greet­ed work­ers when the TTPost build­ing on Lucky Street, La Ro­maine, was re­opened ear­ly Fri­day morn­ing, af­ter bur­glars broke in­to the fa­cil­i­ty overnight.

Po­lice said a mail car­ri­er se­cured the premis­es around 4 pm on Thurs­day at the end of the busi­ness day. When he re­turned around 5.50 am on Fri­day and car­ried out rou­tine checks, he ob­served signs of forced en­try.

Fur­ther in­spec­tions re­vealed that bur­glar-proof­ing on the north­ern side of the build­ing had been de­tached. The in­te­ri­or of­fice space was found in dis­ar­ray, a safe had been tam­pered with, and a T&TEC me­ter was miss­ing.

Re­spond­ing po­lice of­fi­cers de­ter­mined that en­try was gained through a toi­let vent on the north­ern side of the build­ing, while the bur­glars ex­it­ed through a door on the same side. Sev­er­al peo­ple were in­ter­viewed, and of­fi­cers checked the sur­round­ing area for CCTV cam­eras, but no footage was avail­able. The scene was processed by of­fi­cers from the San Fer­nan­do Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment, and work­able fin­ger­prints were re­port­ed­ly found.

Man charged with co­caine pos­ses­sion

In a sep­a­rate mat­ter, po­lice have charged a 49-year-old Di­a­mond Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do man with pos­ses­sion of 26.5 grams of co­caine for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing. He is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore the San Fer­nan­do South Mag­is­trates’ Court on Mon­day.

Ve­hi­cle dam­aged by fire in Mon Re­pos

In an­oth­er in­ci­dent, a sil­ver Maz­da 3 be­long­ing to a 23-year-old Williamsville man was dam­aged by fire ear­ly yes­ter­day. The man told po­lice that he parked and se­cured the car along Nairn Av­enue around 7.45 pm on Fri­day, and no­ticed smoke and flames in­side the car around 12.45 the next morn­ing. With the help of neigh­bours, he ex­tin­guished the fire and con­tact­ed Mon Re­pos po­lice.