Tearful bicycle thief ordered to do community service

A man who admitted to stealing a bicycle was on Wednesday ordered to do community service and placed on self-bail for two other charges.

Trifon Laundry appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court via the Brickdam Police Station Court Hub when Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan ordered him to do four weeks of community service.

The charge against Laundry stated that on May 24, at Brickdam, Georgetown, he stole a bicycle valued $20,000, property of Albert Jeffrey. He was also charged with using threatening language towards Seymour McAllister and unlawfully assaulting another man.