Sheep rustling ring strikes in Tuschen

A Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) family is the latest set of victims of a sheep rustling ring, which has been on the prowl over the last four months.
Mohan Chotilall, 63, said that he tied his sheep to graze on nearby land at around 09:30h on Saturday morning but returned to find all of them missing.
The man told Guyana Times that he is one of many who have had their sheep stolen over the last month.
According to Chotilall, on Saturday morning he took four sheep and left them to graze but when he returned at about 13:00h, he found the ropes cut and the animals gone.
“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 aint 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 relayed.
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.