A To­ba­go mi­nor is await­ing sen­tenc­ing af­ter plead­ing guilty to store break­ing and lar­ce­ny in Crown Point.

The 13-year-old boy was charged af­ter the in­ci­dent was re­port­ed to po­lice on No­vem­ber 17.

He was among five men charged with se­ri­ous of­fences last week.

The oth­er cas­es al­so in­volved younger men and a mid­dle-aged man.

Among them, 21-year-old Kody Bai­ley of Mt St George who was charged with rob­bery with vi­o­lence and oth­er of­fences. He plead­ed not guilty and was de­nied bail in the Scar­bor­ough Court.

Mean­while, 19-year-old Ja­heim Greig, al­so of Mt St George, plead­ed guilty to break­ing in­to homes and steal­ing. He was sen­tenced to three months hard labour for one charge, with sen­tenc­ing for an­oth­er pend­ing.

In sep­a­rate cas­es, 44-year-old De­searn James of Buc­coo was grant­ed bail af­ter be­ing charged with lar­ce­ny, while 23-year-old Mossi­ah Vil­lafana, of La Brea, was de­nied bail on a charge of rob­bery with ag­gra­va­tion.

This comes less than a week af­ter Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Earl Elie warned par­ents that the po­lice will not hes­i­tate to ar­rest any­one, in­clud­ing chil­dren found loi­ter­ing, and take them be­fore the courts.

At the po­lice town hall meet­ing in Black Rock, Elie fur­ther spoke of an alarm­ing trend where chil­dren are linked to some of To­ba­go’s most se­ri­ous crimes, point­ing out that chil­dren as young as 13 years old are be­ing charged with se­ri­ous of­fences.