Sheep rustling rampant in Tuschen, EBE

– residents complains of heads of sheep missing

Harilall Deonarine, a 37-year-old Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo resident, is the latest victim of a suspected sheep rustling ring which has been prowling residents in sections of the East Bank of Essequibo and West Coast of Demerara for a number of months.
Deonarine reported that he awoke on Sunday morning at around 05:30h to find his sheep pen broken into.
Inspections conducted saw 10 sheep missing. “I didn’t hear anything because the pen part off from the house…when we check, like they jump over from the back and stole, entered the pen, we didn’t hear anything though” Deonarine relayed.
The upset man is calling on the police to investigate, noting that he was robbed of his livelihood.
“This is how I make my living. Its sickening man, something gotta be done to catch these people” Deonarine stated.
Just days ago, another Tuschen family lost several sheep at the hands of the same set of thieves.
Sixty-three-year-old Mohan Chotilall told Guyana Times that he tied his sheep to graze on a nearby plot of land at around 09:30h on the morning of Saturday, July 29, but upon returning, they were all missing.
“This thing here happen in broad daylight, these men brazen. I saying men because some people who they steal from saw them. Is only today I seh alright, I ain’t hear about one of the robbery in lil while so let me carrying out that four and let them graze and baps, all four gone, all me find was the ropes,” Chotiall related.
The man explained to this publication that several other persons in the area have made similar reports to the police. “Whoever doing this, they selling them. They have to be rich because is a lot of sheep them stealing so far,” the man said. He is calling on the police to thoroughly investigate the matter.
In June, a De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara (WCD) pensioner had a similar experience when thieves entered her backyard and made off with her sheep.
This publication has previously reported that the 67-year-old woman had said that at about 18:00h, she secured the sheep but retired to bed just before midnight. However, the following morning, she journeyed to the back of her house to take her sheep to graze but noticed that the door to the pen was opened.
Upon inspection, she found that 15 sheep were missing. The woman had expressed her anger over the situation since the sheep were her livelihood and had called on the police to assist her to properly investigate the matter.