KINGSTON, Jamaica — Twenty-year-old Jamar Myrie, who was reportedly held with several cellular phones and items of jewellry at the end of the Carnival Road March in Kingston yesterday, has been charged with breaches of the Larceny Act.

Police report that Myrie, who is from Kirkview Terrace, Ingleside in  Manchester, was searched at a checkpoint and was found with five cellular phones and several pieces of jewellery.

Detectives assigned to the Half Way Tree Criminal Investigations Branch (CIB) this morning appealed for persons to come forward and identify these properties that may have been stolen from them during the Carnival road march.

The police said three persons have since responded, resulting in Myrie being charged with three counts of Larceny from the Person.

His court date will be announced soon.

The officers are again appealing to persons who may have been victims of the larceny  to contact the Half Way Tree Criminal Investigations Branch (CIB) at 926-8184, police 119 emergency number or the nearest police station.