00:00Around 10 p.m. on Tuesday, 3rd March, 2026, the victim, Marcel Schiffel, a 38-year-old German national software
00:08developer who was holidaying at Shepard's Inn Hotel, located along Storby Local Road, Crong Point, retired to bed, leaving his
00:16apartment door unlocked.
00:18Around 8 a.m. the next day, the victim made checks for his iPhone 17, valued at $10,000, and
00:25discovered it missing.
00:26He made further checks and discovered missing one mobile hardware, valued at $1,000, a black pouch, valued $500, a
00:35blue pouch, valued $500, a power bank, valued $500, one Apple iPod, valued $1,000, and one backpack, valued at
00:46$1,000.
00:47A report was subsequently made at the Crong Point police station.
00:51Based on the information received, Erickson Mitchell was subsequently arrested by officers of the CID and Guard and Emergency Unit.
01:00Mitchell appeared before Magistrate Shankar in the Scarborough First Court, where he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 months'
01:08hard labor.
01:08While in another matter, Jariel Balfoy, a 33-year-old farmer of Simon Lawrence Trace, Ryslan Betel, and Akeem Grant
01:17of No. 45 C. Duncan Street, Port of Spain, appeared before Senior Magistrate Alicia Shankar on Tuesday, 17 March 2026,
01:27to answer the charge of possession of drugs with the purpose of trafficking.
01:31The court heard that around 9 p.m. on Friday 6th of February 2026, Balfoy, the driver of a black
01:38Kia Soul with Grant as the front-seat passenger, was traveling along Chilvin Road in the vicinity of the Buku
01:45Plaza, when they were stopped by officers attached to the Divisional Task Force.
01:50A search was carried out on that vehicle, and a quantity of marijuana was found, along with over $6,000
01:58in the glove compartment.
01:59The men were taken into custody, and they subsequently appeared in court.
02:04Attorneys representing the men begged for leniency, but based on their past criminal record, they were sentenced to nine months'
02:11hard labor each.
02:12I am Elizabeth Williams with tonight's Crime Wrap.
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