Security guards appear in court for theft of wire, bicycle

Security guards are hired to protect person and property, but today one employee was charged for failing to do his job. Forty-four year old Phillip Estrada, a security guard at the Youth Hostel, pleaded not guilty when he appeared in court today for allegedly stealing a shade of wire from his employer. According to reports, the incident occurred between the sixteenth and nineteenth of May when Fernando Chun, an officer at the hostel, went to a storeroom on the compound and could not locate the wire. Chun said that only Estrada and another officer had keys to the storeroom. An investigation into the matter revealed that the wire had been sold to forty-four year old businessman of Benque, Iver Hernandez, who, after discovering he was handling stolen goods, turned it over to the police. Estrada was offered bail of four thousand dollars and is scheduled to reappear in court on December sixteenth.

Another security guard appeared in court today, but this time it was for stealing a bike. This morning thirty-one year old David White pleaded not guilty to the charge of Robbery in front of Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb. White was offered bail of three thousand dollars and his case was adjourned until December fifteenth. The incident occurred around four-thirty Thursday evening. The victim: fourteen-year old Lindbergh Hyde. Hyde reported to police that he and some friends were on Simon Lamb Street when White robbed him of his beach cruiser bicycle. During the robbery, the minor says he struck White in the head with the bike lock and White responded by biting him twice: once on the neck and shoulder before riding off. Police apprehended White shortly after the incident and retrieved the bike.