Former MLA arrested for shoplifting

(CNS): Police confirmed Tuesday that they had arrested a Cayman Brac resident around 4:30 on Saturday afternoon at a local store for shoplifting. CNS has learned that the 42-year-old man is former MLA for Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, Lyndon Martin, and according to the RCIPS report he was arrested on suspicion of theft of itemstotalling $4.10 from Tibbetts Enterprises. A police spokesperson said that officers from Cayman Brac Police were now investigating the matter. Martin also appeared in the Summary Court on the Brac last month in relation to the theft of more than $900 from the Creek and Spot Bay School PTA last year.

The former UDP representative for the Sister Islands between 2002 and 2005 is accused of taking money from a PTA fund raiser and falsely tendering cheques from the PTA account for his personal use.