...held - Three persons taken into custody, might be interviewed today
December 12, 2008
At least three persons suspected of stealing sand from properties in Trelawny are now in police custody.
However, up to late yesterday, the police were refusing to provide any details. They argued that, because of the state of their investigation, they could not disclose the identities of the persons arrested or their roles in the sand theft.
Yesterday, attorney-at-law Tom Tavares-Finson confirmed his clients, Devon Sterling and Christopher Pryce, had been arrested, along with another man, but not charged.
Being held at ocid
He said the men might be formally interviewed by police today and are being held at the Organised Crime Investigation Division.
Gleaner sources claimed none of those arrested was the mastermind of the operation which resulted in the theft of almost 500 truckloads of sand from three properties.
The sources further claimed that it did not appear that any member of the police force was arrested, although eyewitnesses have claimed policemen provided security cover over the three nights the sand was stolen.
The Gleaner understands that early yesterday morning, the police, armed with warrants, targeted properties in the Corporate Area and Westmoreland.
Satisfied with briefing
The Government's point man in the sand probe, minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Daryl Vaz, told The Gleaner that while the arrests of the alleged perpetrators were long in coming, he was satisfied, having received an initial briefing from the investigators....
Author: Arthur Hall
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
