An auto mechanic was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court charged with stealing mining equipment worth $8.9 million from his employer.
Mandela Phillips, 20, of Kuru Kuru, Linden-Soesdyke Highway was accused of stealing a Reed pump, 4 pairs of truck caps, 6 Caterpillar headlamps, 14 truck fuel pump injectors, 9 fuel pump elements, 2 truck computer boxes, 8 welding rods, 3 truck suspension kits and other articles valued $8.9 million from his employer Saif and Samaria El Dorado Mining Company (SSEDMC).
It was alleged that Phillips broke into the company’s storage facility at Kwakwani, Berbice River on