Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson granted a man bail on Friday when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing a generator belonging to another man.
Thirty-one-year-old Hubert Crandon of D’Urban Backlands pleaded not guilty to the charge of break and enter and larceny.
He denied that between September 7 and 8 he broke and entered the dwelling house of Anthony Perry and stole a generator valued $700,000.
Prosecutor Kevin London stated that the generator was found in Crandon’s possession.
He said that the police, acting on information received, arrested Crandon when they found him at Stabroek Market with the generator in a cart.
However, Crandon stated that he did not steal the generator. He said his cart was stolen on September 7 and the following day he found two men at Stabroek Market with the generator inside the cart.
He said the men then begged him to take the cart out of the area but the police approached them at the same time.
He said one of the men rode away on a bicycle while the police arrested him and the other man.
He said the police placed the other man in a car while he was placed in another police car to be taken to the police station. He said that when he got there the police told him that the other man had also escaped and they were going to charge him with the offence.
The magistrate then placed him on bail in the sum of $50,000 and ordered that the case be transferred to Court Six for September 29.
