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Hijacked car recovered in Berbice

Nov 30, 2008 News

– four held trying to arrange sale

Police in Berbice have arrested four men following the recovery of a car that was hijacked last Wednesday night on Mandela Avenue. Police say that the men arrested were arranging a sale for the car.

According to a source, at about 11:00 hours on Friday, police received a tip that a strange car was observed parked in front of a house at Stanleytown, New Amsterdam.

Ranks responded, and upon checking the car discovered that it was the same vehicle that was reported stolen from Cecil Carter.

According to the source, the men arrested have been giving conflicting statements on how they came to be in possession of the vehicle. One of the men reportedly told investigators that someone had brought the car for him to arrange a sale.

However, the police response intercepted any attempt to complete the transaction.
Investigators believe that, with the arrest, they have dented a car theft ring.

On Wednesday night, at around 21:10 hours, Carter was at his friend Cecil Semple’s house on Mandela Avenue attending a function.    According to Semple, he was commemorating 40 days since the death of his son and had invited several relatives and friends to his Mandela Avenue home.

Semple said that prior to the robbery the rest of his friends had left, leaving only himself and Carter at the location.

He said he went to his daughter’s aid in the upper flat of his two-storey house, where she was encountering some trouble with a tap. “When I was about to come back downstairs, I saw two men standing in my yard with guns and my friend lying on the ground,” Semple said.  He said he nevertheless went into the yard where his friend was, and he, too, was ordered to lie on the ground, but he bluntly refused.

“I just tell them do what de hell they want do…I say me ain’t able no more. I just bury me son and I ain’t able with this stupidness.”

Semple said the men then discharged two shots, one to the ground and another in the air.  One of the shots struck Carter in the right arm, and the men then ran to the wounded man, took his car keys from him, and fled in the vehicle, which was parked on the parapet.

The men also escaped with a small quantity of cash which Carter had in his pocket. Carter was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, where he was treated.

The two victims were expected to travel to Berbice yesterday to possibly identify the men in custody.

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