AC technician caught on camera stealing from police station

An air-conditioning technician hired to work inside the Arima Police Station was fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to stealing a camera from the same building — a crime caught on the station’s own surveillance system.

Police said 38-year-old Dexter Renne, of Richardson Street, Pepper Village, Fyzabad, was contracted through an air-conditioning service provider to perform maintenance at the station.

On 22nd July, 2025, an officer had placed a box containing two Canon EOS Rebel T7 cameras and accessories in the locked server room on the station’s second floor. When he returned on the morning of 7th August, one of the cameras, valued at $4,000, was gone.

Investigators reviewed security footage and found Renne, while on the job, helping himself to the camera.

Two days later, Renne returned to the station for more maintenance work, where police arrested him on the spot. He was charged on 11th August and appeared before Master Simone Hosein at High Court North the next day.

Renne admitted to the theft and was ordered to pay the $10,000 fine within six months, along with $4,000 in compensation to the State within two months.

The camera was taken from a police station, recorded by a police station camera, and solved by police stationed in the same building.