Good Samaritan allegedly steals $1 million

Police report that one of two men who posed as Good Samaritans and offered to assist a man to change his tyre in Ocho Rios, St Ann last December, has been charged with stealing $1 million.

Delorie Laird, 41, otherwise called 'Steelie', a farmer of Galsby Street, Greenvale, Mandeville in Manchester, has been charged with simple larceny. Reports from the St Ann's Bay police are that, about 2:30 p.m. on December 10, a man went to a bank in Ocho Rios and withdrew $1 million. He was changing a flat tyre along Evelyn Street when Laird and another man reportedly offered some assistance. However, when the two men left, the man noticed that his bag that contained the cash was missing.

Laird was arrested and subsequently charged after he was pointed out during an identification parade last Friday. His court date is being finalised.