Trio remanded over pirate attacks

Eon Sampson and Richard Mangal with their heads bent

Three men, Richard Mangal, Eon Sampson, and Gary Joseph, were yesterday charged with robbing several fishermen of over $6M in a series of pirate attacks over the last weekend, and the court prosecutor said that they confessed to the crimes after leading police to the stolen articles.

Gary Joseph

Mangal, a fisherman, of Lot 44 Pigeon Island, West Coast Demerara, Sampson, a vendor, of Lot 69 Mocha Arcadia, and Joseph, a farmer/fisherman, of Barima