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Aug 08, 2009 News
Quick action by a University of Guyana (UG) student led to the capture of a laptop thief yesterday in the Beharry Dormitories, ground floor – Wing A of the campus.
The victim, Ganesh Mahipaul, who is a second-year student studying Geological Engineering told Kaieteur News yesterday that he was in the technology building of the university when his brother called to inform him that someone had taken his laptop from his room and had left with it.
The alleged thief was later identified to be a 14-year-old from Sophia.
Ganesh explained that his brother described the individual as someone with a red patch in his head and that he was walking on the catwalk. This is when Ganesh spotted the alleged thief and went up to him.
“He was holding the laptop and he was constantly looking behind him to see if anybody was following him. He didn’t know it was me so I walked up to him and I stopped and I said ‘Wait that thing in your hand is mine’ and I then took him to the security at the dorms and handcuffed him.”
The alleged thief was then taken to the security’s main office on the campus after which the authorities contacted the Turkeyen Police Station. According to Ganesh, he was told by two students that they recalled seeing the individual in the Hall of Residence in the laundry room and they chased him out of the building since they realised that he is not a UG student.
“To my understanding, he went into my room, took my laptop from the table, put it in his bag and went to the laundry room where the boys saw him and chased him out of the dorms.”
However, it was explained that there is security at the dorms, so Ganesh opined that it was strange that the alleged thief was allowed into the building. “The security guard is incompetent, he wasn’t at the door and the boy walked right into the building.”
It was later noted that the security guard explained to the police officers that he was in the washroom at the time of the incident.
It was noted that the alleged thief chose to go into Ganesh’s room because his door was the only one unlocked at the time.
The 14-year-old has since confessed to the crime and apologised to Ganesh at the Turkeyen Police Station. Ganesh got back his laptop, while the alleged thief is in police custody. According to Ganesh, last year January, he lost his first laptop in a similar incident.
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