Dwayne Mcleod, Staff Reporter

A policeman was recently arrested and charged with breaching the Larceny Act after he allegedly took $10,000 from a home while investigating a report of housebreaking.

Charged with simple larceny is 26-year-old Franz Gordon, a District Constable attached to the Green Island Police Station in Hanover.

Reports from the Constabulary Communication Network are that about 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Gordon was a member of a police team that was investigating a report of housebreaking at a premises in Cauldwell district in the parish.

While the police carried out their investigations, a resident raised an alarm after it was found that $10,000 was missing from a room in the house.

Gordon was reportedly found with $10,000 and was then arrested and charged.

Meanwhile, Gordon appeared in the Lucea Resident Magistrate's Court on Thursday and was granted bail in the sum of $40,000.

He is booked to return on April 11.