Woman to face High Court on larceny charge

A woman is sched­uled to ap­pear be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court next Mon­day (March 9, 2026), fol­low­ing a charge of Lar­ce­ny re­lat­ed to an on­line ve­hi­cle sale.

The ac­cused, Chi­nara Colling­wood, was for­mal­ly charged on March 3, with lar­ce­ny of $6,000. The charge fol­lows in­ves­ti­ga­tions by of­fi­cers of the Fraud Squad, East­ern Di­vi­sion.

She was grant­ed bail of $30,000 with one sure­ty.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions be­gan af­ter a re­port filed on Sep­tem­ber 2, 2024, by a male vic­tim. The vic­tim stat­ed that he re­spond­ed to an on­line ad­ver­tise­ment for a white Nis­san Wingroad val­ued at $50,000. The ad­ver­tise­ment re­quired a $6,000 down pay­ment with the bal­ance payable in in­stal­ments.

The vic­tim re­port­ed de­posit­ing $6,000 in­to a lo­cal bank ac­count. The ve­hi­cle was not de­liv­ered and at­tempts to re­cov­er the pay­ment were un­suc­cess­ful.

Of­fi­cers of the Fraud Squad con­duct­ed en­quiries, and on March 3, 2026, ex­e­cut­ed a search war­rant at a res­i­dence in San­gre Grande.

Chi­nara Colling­wood was ar­rest­ed and charged fol­low­ing con­sul­ta­tions with se­nior of­fi­cers.

The mat­ter will con­tin­ue in the High Court on the sched­uled date, and au­thor­i­ties have stat­ed that in­ves­ti­ga­tions re­main on­go­ing.

The Po­lice Ser­vice is rem­i­ning the pub­lic to ex­er­cise cau­tion when con­duct­ing on­line trans­ac­tions and to ver­i­fy the le­git­i­ma­cy of sell­ers be­fore mak­ing ad­vance pay­ments.