Guards hide as bandits ransack school
Carolyn Kissoon South Bureau
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161473894Wednesday, May 6th 2009
When bandits broke into the Tabaquite Composite School early Monday morning,
two security guards locked themselves in a classroom and called the police. 
But it was not until the men ransacked the classrooms and escaped with three laptop computers and a projector that the policemen arrived.
The security guards were inside the art classroom around 2 a.m. when they heard a noise outside, a school official said.
"When he (a guard) saw the bandits he ran back inside and locked the door. The bandits tried to break open the door but the guard threw out the keys to the other classrooms. They called the police, but they did not come until two hours later," he said.
The stolen items, valued $45,000, were locked in the school's computer lab. The library and several other classrooms were ransacked, the Express was told.
Classes were not affected on Monday.
Police said fingerprints were lifted from the scene. Investigations are continuing.
