Two police constables were placed on $50,000 bail each after they appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on a joint charge of theft of a VHF radio.

Leon Bayley

Leon Bayley, 24, of 136 Crown Street, Queenstown and Curtis Lesfloris, 23, of 12 Golden Fleece were not required to plead to the charge. It is alleged that on July 21 the pair stole one VHF transceiver radio valued at $80,000, property of the Guyana Police Force.

In explaining the situation to the magistrate, Bayley said that he had signed for the radio but gave it to Lesfloris who dropped it in someone’s car while being given a lift back to the Brickdam Police Station after finishing his ‘beat duty’. He said that Lesfloris who had gotten the number of the vehicle sought an address for the owner at the Licence Revenue Office but upon going to the address no such person was living there.

Prosecutor Sherwin Mathews said that since Bayley had signed for the radio  he should not have given it to another officer because he was the one responsible for it.

They were both put on $50,000 bail each and would have to return to court on September 11.

Curtis Lesfloris