Customs Officer charged for allegedly stealing passenger’s jewellery

Dec 04, 2019 News

– Claims he was holding on to it

The defendant, 26-year-old Kareem Azeez, a father of two of Laluni Street, Queenstown, Georgetown, who is being represented by a customs officer lost his job after he admitted that he had a passenger’s jewellery in his possession.
The man didn’t only lose his job at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport but he was also charged and put before the court.
The matter was called before Magistrate Sunil Scarce in the Providence Magistrate’s Courts.
Azeez pleaded not guilty to the charge which stated that on October 1, 2019, at Cheddi Jagan International Airport, he stole a gold bracelet valued US$150 and a gold chain valued US$200, property of Anjalie Deonarine.
It was disclosed during the court hearing of the matter that Deonarine was a passenger, who has already left the country but she left a statement.
Attorney-at-law Adrian Thompson, made an application for his client to be released on a reasonable amount of bail.
The court heard that the defendant was searching the various persons and the bracelet and chain were left behind and he kept it. When the woman returned and claimed that the jewellery was hers, the defendant told the woman that he could not give her the jewellery because he didn’t know to whom it belonged.
So he held onto the jewellery.
The woman went to the relevant authorities at the airport and told them that she had forgot her jewellery at Customs area, and that when she went back for it. the Customs officer refused to give her the jewellery.
When they approached the defendant and asked him if he had any gold jewellery in his possession, he answered in the affirmative. But he still lost his job and now he is working with his father in construction.
After listening to the information that came out during the court proceedings, Magistrate Scarce released the defendant on self bail and the matter was adjourned to December 31, 2019, for report and fixture for trial.

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