Durrant Pate/Contributor

In an Our Today news follow-up, a District Constable charged with theft of over $400,000 at an office at the Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division (FNID), has been offered $500,000 bail.

She is 31-year-old Shaneek Plummer of Innswood Village, St. Catherine, who was assigned to the division, located at 230 Spanish Town Road, Kingston 11, at the time of her arrest last Monday, September 14.

She was offered bail when she appeared in the Corporate Area Criminal Court at Half-Way-Tree yesterday. As a condition of bail, the accused was to surrender her travel documents and report to the Spanish Town police station three days per week.

FNID investigators formally charged the accused with Simple Larceny and Possession of Criminal Property following the theft of over $400,000 at its facility Monday.

Reports are that between 6:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. on Monday, a Constable stationed at the FNID temporarily left a bag containing over $650,000 cash in his office to use the restroom. 

When the complainant returned, he discovered that a portion of the cash was missing. Supervisors were notified and an internal investigation was launched. 

Plummer was subsequently arrested on the compound after she was caught attempting to conceal the cash. The funds were fully recovered and verified as the exact amount reported missing. 

A file was prepared and submitted to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, which advised laying criminal charges against her.