Man admits to entering Housing Ministry Annex via open window
Police have arrested the man who had been captured on CCTV footage entering the Housing Ministry Annex at about 00:22h on March 2, after
detectives, acting on information received, on Tuesday arrested Devon Hubbard, a 39-year-old resident of Garnett Street in Georgetown.
Told of the allegation in an interview with the police, Hubbard admitted under caution that he had entered the annex through a southern window which was opened on the second flat of the building.
Devon Hubbard
He said he had picked up a bag and exited the annex using the same window, and he claimed that nothing was in the bag that he had stolen.
He is expected to be charged today.
According to police, despite the office being discovered ransacked, no item had been reported missing or stolen.
According to reports, a 22-year-old Office Assistant had secured the building at 20:00h on March 2, and had deposited the keys at the security area of the Ministry’s Head Office on Brickdam. Upon retrieving the keys at 07:00h on March 3, the Office Assistant was informed by a cleaner who had just arrived that a door on the middle flat was open and the office had been ransacked.
A review of CCTV footage revealed that at 00:22h, a man, dressed in a black jersey and green three-quarter pants, arrived at the premises on a blue BMX pedal cycle. He approached from the western side of Brickdam, before turning north and stopping in front of the Housing Ministry’s Annex. The footage showed the suspect entering a compound south of the Annex and re-emerging at 00:45h from the western side of the building. He was seen leaving the area with a black haversack and a white box, heading north on United Nations Place before turning east onto Coral Street, Georgetown.
A subsequent inspection of the premises revealed an open casement window in the Information Technology Room on the middle flat, though no visible sign of forced entry was found. Police have said they had conducted interviews with multiple individuals as investigations continued into the incident.
