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Four remanded for delivery truck robbery

Dec 23, 2008 News

Four men who held up a Sterling Products delivery truck last week were remanded to prison when they appeared before Magistrate Yohhannseh Cave at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court.
The quartet, Adrian John, 19, of Martyrsville, Mon Repos; Sydney Seenauth, 21, also of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara; Mark Welch, 18, of Prospect, East Bank Demerara; and a 15-year-old, were charged with robbery under arms.
It is alleged that, on Thursday last, the men held up a delivery truck and robbed driver/salesman Dayson Yearwood of $50,000 and a quantity of jewellery while he and two porters were delivering supplies to a shop.
The men fled into the nearby village, thinking that their escape was clear.
However, residents who saw the entire operation confronted the men and subsequently detained them before handing them over to the police.
According to a source, none of the stolen items was recovered.
Three of the suspects were represented by the same defence counsel. However, his pleas for their pre-trial liberty were unsuccessful.
On Sunday, the police were forced to transfer the four prisoners from the Beterverwagting Police Station lock-ups to the more secure facility at Sparendaam after the prisoners were caught ripping out the floor boards at the BV lock-ups.
Kaieteur News was told that the men were in one cell and were being monitored by the various ranks on duty.
A female corporal on duty observed strange noises coming from the lock-ups and, upon checking, found that the men had already ripped out three boards from the floor.
“She just happened to check in the nick of time,” said a source at the Beterverwagting Police Station.
An escape at this time would certainly have embarrassed the police, who have boasted of making Guyana safe again by reining in several criminal elements this year.
The Beterverwagting Police Station is designed to house juvenile and female prisoners.
The source could not say why the men were being held there since last week.

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