THE Manchester police are hailing as brave the actions of residents of Mandeville in the parish who last Sunday apprehended a man suspected of at least two incidents of shopbreaking and larceny in the parish capital.
According to the police, the accused, Omar Forbes, 47, of North Race Course Road, was handed over to the police after residents allegedly spotted him with stockings and other items allegedly stolen from a store in the town centre.
Subsequent investigations, the police said, implicated Forbes in two incidents — one on Thursday, May 14 and the other on Saturday, May 16.
Cocaine seized at airport
For the second time in just over two weeks, the work of the Canine Division has led to the seizure of illegal drugs, this time at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Thursday, May 21.
The Half-Way-Tree police said about 1:35 am on Thursday, May 21 an alarm alerted security personnel to a store on Constant Spring Road, Kingston 10, where Lindsay was allegedly intercepted with a quantity of slippers, umbrellas and shoes valued at approximately $150,000.
