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Ungrateful man jailed for stealing SDA church money

Dec 20, 2015 News

A man who got baptized after he was taken in by a family of the Seventh Day Adventist Church and got them to trust him subsequently escaped with over $400,000 a year ago.
He was left at home by the unsuspecting family. Since then he was on the run. That run is over and he is now jailed.
The man, Ramesh Ramnarine, called “Roy”, 40, of no fixed placed of abode was on Friday sentenced to 11 months in jail by Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus on a charge of simple larceny.
He is accused of on September 7, last year, at Winkle Road, New Amsterdam Berbice, he stole $418,000, property of the Friendship Seventh Day Adventist Church.
According to information the man befriended the Caple family of Friendship, Berbice River after he reportedly told them that he had nowhere to stay. They subsequently took him. He got baptized and started attending church and began working and staying with the family.
ON Saturday September 6, 2014, the man subsequently visited the family while they were at a relative’s home in Winkle and spent the night. The Caples subsequently went out around 11:30 hrs the following day leaving Ramnarine at home with the children. Upon their return about two hours after, Ramnarine was not there.  Upon inquiry it was told that Ramnarine and one of the children had gone to buy Malta.
The child subsequently returned after and stated that Ramnarine had left to collect money from a debtor. He subsequently left to buy Malta and then ice cream. Ramnarine never returned.
It was subsequently learnt that the man proceeded to the bedroom in a pretext of fixing the bed. He subsequently used the time to slit an attaché case and removed the money. The cash which was Tithes and Offering from The church was to be taken to the head office in Georgetown.
He was nabbed over one year later at a popular hotel in New Amsterdam.
Upon being arrested he stated that the family owed him, so he took revenge. He subsequently kept changing his story. He then pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 11 month in jail.

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