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Ing woman, son over alleged theft

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The woman said that the police made her sign two places on a paper unknown to her and while her son was unconsciou­s, they allegedly took his thumbprint on another paper.

Meanwhile, the woman also alleged that $103,000 was stolen from her bag. “Me had the money to clean me husband eye and after me son sick, me say me go use the money to do he test them,” she stated.

“He (police) wear a dye shirt and he ask me for my bag to check and when he go in, he take out me money and when me come out he na gimme back me mommy. Me see he take out my money”, she insisted. “When me ask he for me money he say he na get no (expletive) money to give me,” Jagnanand recounted.

After being told by the police officer that she could leave, the woman immediatel­y rushed her son to the hospital.

A document to retrieve a medical was only given to the woman at the New Amsterdam Police Station yesterday midday. “Me come a Whim (Police Station) since morning 8 and them tell me the OC (Officer-in-Charge) not here and me got to wait outside underneath the shed and them go call me when he come and around 12 me couldn’t bear the pain no more so me decide to go New Amsterdam. We na even had money, me daughter had to pay me passage”, she said.

Stabroek News confirmed from reliable sources that the Officer-inCharge of Sub Division 2, Boodnarine Persaud, was present in his office at the time and that it was his secretary who told the woman to wait downstairs.

Following the visit to the hospital yesterday, Jagnanand visited the New Amsterdam Police Station, where she met with Deputy Commander of B Division, Dehearte, and was taken to the Police Complaints Authority to report the matter.

Further allegation­s

Meanwhile, Baldeo Budhram, 33, of Corriverto­n, yesterday claimed that he was assaulted by ranks on a patrol attached to the Springland­s Police Station early last month.

The hire car driver explained that he was returning home, when some 20 feet away from his destinatio­n, he heard the police siren behind him. “Me pull down and them stop side of me and ask me to step out the vehicle. Them ask if me drink and me tell them no,” Budhram

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