Two men were sen­tenced to two years hard labour and an­oth­er de­nied bail yes­ter­day af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore a San­gre Grande Mag­is­trate, charged with store break­ing and lar­ce­ny.

Collin Gra­ham, 27, a preschool teacher, of Oropouche Road San­gre Grande and Mau­rice Orosco, 25, a con­struc­tion work­er, of Son­ja Cir­cu­lar, San­gre Grande, plead­ed guilty.

Mean­while, Je­hu Fran­cois, 37, a builder, of Coro­na­tion Road, Up­per San­gre Grande, who plead­ed not guilty was in­stead re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody.

He was de­nied bail and will reap­pear be­fore the court on Oc­to­ber 23, to an­swer the charge.

The trio was charged on Sep­tem­ber 27 by PC Bud­hooram, of the San­gre Grande Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID), who

con­tin­ued en­quiries in­to a Sep­tem­ber 18th po­lice re­port of Store Break­ing and Lar­ce­ny in which sev­er­al elec­tron­ics and cash were stolen.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­port, at 6 pm on Sep­tem­ber 18th, a sales clerk locked and se­cured a busi­ness place lo­cat­ed along the East­ern Main Road, San­gre Grande, and went away.

The fol­low­ing day, at 8.48 am, she re­turned and ob­served a cel­lu­lar phone show­case ran­sacked and sev­er­al elec­tron­ic de­vices miss­ing and a door to the tech­ni­cian’s of­fice bro­ken in­to with an undis­closed amount of cash miss­ing.

Po­lice were alert­ed and a par­ty of CID de­tec­tives re­spond­ed.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion was launched which re­sult­ed in three male sus­pects be­ing traced and lat­er charged with the of­fence.