Fifty-nine-year old Robert Cud­joe was sen­tenced to 16 months of hard labour when he ap­peared be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate Adri­an Dar­manie at the Ch­agua­nas Mag­is­trates’ Court to­day charged with rob­bery.

ROBERT CUD­JOE was sen­tenced 16 months’ hard labour to­day. The 59-year-old man plead­ed guilty to the charges of of­fice break­ing and lar­ce­ny when he ap­peared be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate Adri­an Dar­manie at the Ch­agua­nas Mag­is­trates’ Court to­day.

Around 1:55 pm on Mon­day 4th Oc­to­ber, 2021, a fe­male em­ploy­ee of a guest house lo­cat­ed at Der­rick Road, Chase Vil­lage, Freeport when she ob­served a man on the com­pound via their CCTV cam­eras. The em­ploy­ee al­leged­ly saw the man break in­to an of­fice space lo­cat­ed on the west­ern side of the build­ing, which is used to store air con­di­tion­ing units and oth­er sup­plies. She then ob­served the sus­pect re­mov­ing an air con­di­tion­ing unit from the said of­fice.

The woman then made checks and ob­served one Tachi­air AC unit val­ued at $2,500 was miss­ing. Fol­low­ing a re­port made to the po­lice, Ag/ Cpl Ba­boolal and PC Paul vis­it­ed the scene, in­ter­viewed per­sons, record­ed state­ments and the CCTV footage was re­trieved. Po­lice re­viewed the CCTV footage then ar­rest­ed and charged the ac­cused with of­fice break­ing and lar­ce­ny.