Three teenagers were yesterday charged with the armed robbery committed on a Soesdyke painter during the wee hours of Thursday and they made an appearance before Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Providence Magistrate’s Court.

According to a police press release, Phil Charles Cameron, 19; Devon Romalho, 18, and Harold Critchlow, 19, all of Soesdyke have been charged with robbery under arms committed on Wilson Bacchus.

In addition, the release said, Romalho was charged with possession of ammunition without a licence.

The three were remanded to prison and will make their next court appearance on
June 9.
According to the police, officers, acting on information received, went to a house in Soesdyke on Thursday night and found an unlicensed .22 revolver with five matching rounds and a spent shell.

The firearm, which was concealed in the ceiling, the release said, was believed to have been used to commit the robbery.

Around, 2 am on Thursday, Wilson’s wife Alita Bacchus, was awakened by the sound of breaking glass and believing that drink bottles were breaking in the freezer, she woke up her husband. As he went to investigate, he was confronted by three men who discharged a round at him.

The bandits rounded up the couple and their 14-year-old son but Wilson managed to escape and alert neighbours. The bandits later fled with their loot which included cash and jewellery. Police acting on information arrested the three young men in the village, one of whom was found with three rounds of ammunition and some jewellery and cash believed to be booty from the robbery.