The police said yesterday that 12 people were held after the Linden Digicel Store and the Mackenzie Post Office were broken into and looted; suspects had items from the two offices in their possession.
According to a police press release, at about 23:35 hrs on Friday, ranks responded to a report of persons seen acting suspiciously at Republic Avenue, Mackenzie. They found that the Digicel outlet and the Post Office had been broken into. “Quick work by the police led to the arrest of eleven men and a woman and the recovery of a number of articles suspected to have been stolen from the two offices,” the release said.
The articles included one laptop and three desk top computers, two water dispensers, one wireless phone, one money counting machine, three flat screen television sets, one iPod, one