Two men have been slapped with charges of sacrilege following their arrest in connection with the theft of sound equipment from a church in Dias, Hanover on Sunday.

They are 19-year-old Jowarne Watson, otherwise called ‘Tuggy’ and 18-year-old Dehomarko Buchanan, otherwise called ‘Messi', who are both from Dias, Hanover.

The police report that about 2:30 p.m., church members returned to the location and found that culprits had entered through a window and stolen two speaker boxes valued at approximately $74,000.

The police were called and the teens were subsequently held with the suspected stolen equipment.