Sophia coconut vendor charged with stealing $2M in clothes from Kitty stallholder

Clifton Dowden

A coconut vendor was on Friday released on $100,000 bail after he was charged with stealing $2 million in clothes from a Kitty Market stallholder.

Clifton Dowden, 50, of Sophia, Greater Georgetown, appeared before Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where he was charged with simple larceny.

He pleaded not guilty to the charge that between the September 19 and September 21, at Barr and Alexander streets, Kitty, Georgetown, he broke into the stall of Persaud (only name stated) and stole a quantity of clothes valued at $2,000,000.