Three charged over San Fernando home invasion

Three men ap­peared be­fore a San Fer­nan­do High Court Mas­ter joint­ly charged with two of­fences aris­ing out of an in­ci­dent on April 20.

Naresh Joseph, a 34-year-old se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer, Ri­car­do Bap­tiste, a 24-year-old se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer, and Re­nan­do Bap­tiste, a 22-year-old se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer, ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Sarah De Sil­va yes­ter­day, charged joint­ly with home in­va­sion and ma­li­cious dam­age.

The charges stem from an in­ci­dent which took place on April 20.

Po­lice re­ports in­di­cate that the 42-year-old vic­tim was at a bar where he had a ver­bal dis­pute with the three ac­cused. He lat­er re­turned to his home at Philip­pine Road, San Fer­nan­do.

Lat­er that night, at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 11 pm, the sus­pects al­leged­ly went to the vic­tim’s home and be­gan throw­ing ob­jects, dam­ag­ing a win­dow and a sheet of ply­board. In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the sus­pects then en­tered the vic­tim’s home, where a scuf­fle en­sued.

Po­lice said one of the sus­pects, a Firearm User’s Li­cence hold­er, was al­leged­ly armed with a firearm and made threats to kill, while the oth­er two made threats of vi­o­lence to­wards the vic­tim. Fam­i­ly mem­bers even­tu­al­ly quelled the al­ter­ca­tion and re­moved the sus­pects from the premis­es.

The mat­ter was re­port­ed to the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion, and PC Cabr­era led the in­ves­ti­ga­tion. Fol­low­ing en­quiries, of­fi­cers re­ceived in­struc­tions to charge the three men with the of­fences.

The ac­cused were each grant­ed bail of $200,000 with sure­ty and are await­ing a suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing date