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Bandits hammer hole in concrete wall
– remove over $500,000 in items from Wholesale Depot
The hole hammered into the concrete wall that allowed the bandits access to the Wholesale Depot.
For the second time this year, businessman Michael Rodrigues woke up to discover that one of his two businesses was broken into and items stolen.
Rodrigues suffered over $2M in losses several weeks ago at his Internet café in Alexander Village.
Yesterday, he opened his Regent Street Digicel/GT&T Wholesale Depot, at around 08:00 hrs, to find that bandits had hammered a hole in the concrete wall and had removed a generator valued at $210,000 and other items.
Earlier on in this year, bandits had broken into his Alexander Village Internet café and removed flat screen computers and monitors amounting to over $2M.
Rodrigues said that when he opened the door of the Wholesale Depot, all seemed to be well in the interior. The businessman said, however, that upon opening a door that led from the small office to a seating area at the back, he noticed the gaping hole in the concrete wall and saw that the generator was gone.
He said that further checks revealed that other communication items were also removed.
The man was, however, thankful that the perpetrators did not wrench open the door leading to the small office, since most of the ‘expensive pieces’ were stored there.
The location is guarded by security at night, but the bandits gained entry to the very rear of the lengthy building.
According to the businessman, this is the second time that the Regent Street business has been broken into.
While the doors and windows have been grilled for protection, the businessman said, he now has to think of strategies to prevent the wall-breaking entry from occurring again.
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