‘Drunk’ Albouystown man gets eight months for break and enter and larceny

Christopher Gonsalves

`An Albouystown man who pleaded guilty to breaking into an apartment and stealing several gadgets amounting to over $300,000, was on Monday sentenced to eight months in jail.

Christopher Gonsalves, 30, of Independence Boulevard, Albouystown, appeared virtually at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus handed down the sentence.

Gonsalves had previously confessed that on January 21, at Camp Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, he broke into the apartment and stole a haversack, two laptops, a Nigerian passport, personal documents, a cellphone, a bag, a charger, several flash drives, and other personal items, amounting to $389,500, in value.