Trio remanded over pirate attacks

Eon Sampson and Richard Mangal

Three men, Richard Mangal, Eon Sampson, and Gary Joseph, were yesterday charged with robbing several fishermen of over $6 million 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.

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