Ex-cop, accomplice jailed after caught on CCTV robbing miner

Jun 23, 2018 News

Former policeman Timothy Waldron and his alleged accomplice Shawn Archibald have been jailed for five and fou

Former policeman Timothy Waldron

r years respectively for carrying out a brazen robbery which was captured on Closed Circuit Television (CCTV).
Archibald pleaded guilty on May 10, while Waldron was found guilty yesterday. Both had appeared in the Linden Magistrate’s Court.
On December 31, 2017, Waldron, 39, and Shawn Archibald, 29, both of Unity Place, South Ruimveldt, robbed Trevor Campbell of five gold chains valued $740,000 at Republic Avenue, Mackenzie, Linden.
A release stated that Campbell was standing in the vicinity of the Mackenzie Market with friends when three men came up and pointed handguns at him. One of the men said “You owe me from the bush”, and relieved the miner of his chains.
They then escaped in a silver-grey Toyota Allion. The entire robbery was recorded on a nearby CCTV camera.
On January 13, last, they were picked out by the victim during two separate identification parades. They were subsequently charged and remanded.

CCTV cameras recorded the attack on Trevor Campbell

On May 10, both accused appeared in the Linden Magistrate’s Court before Senior Magistrate Clive Nurse. However, before the CCTV could be presented in court, Archibald pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years imprisonment. He was also fined $75,000.
Yesterday, Senior Magistrate Nurse found Waldron guilty of robbery under arms and sentenced him to five years imprisonment. He was also fined $100,000.
Waldron and Archibald also have other matters pending before the courts.

Shawn Archibald

One charge alleges that Archibald on January 1, 2018, at West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, while being armed with a gun, robbed Roy Jaundoo of two gold chains valued $220,000 and one iPhone valued $186,000.
It was further alleged that on September 5, last, at Festival City, North Ruimveldt, Archibald fraudulently used a fake registration number PTT 233 on a vehicle, knowing same to be false.
The court also heard that Waldron, on December 5, last, at Festival City, fraudulently used a fake registration number PTT1946 on a Silver Toyota Premio vehicle, knowing same to be false.