Sentencing looms for trainee cop who stole colleague’s phone

A young recruit dashed his dream of becoming a police officer when he stole a colleague’s mobile phone.

Tyrone Cort accepted that between August 3 and August 4, at the Felix Austin Police Training School, in Corentyne, Berbice, he stole a Samsung Galaxy cell phone, valued $50,000, from Jermaine Humphrey.

When asked by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry why he “did a foolish thing like this, to jeopardise your