Bandits nabbed after Linden restaurant robbery-booty missing

Aug 21, 2009 News

Public-spirited citizens turned the tables on three young bandits who carted off $500,000 from Dick’s Chinese Restaurant in Republic Avenue, Linden, early yesterday morning, after holding the owners at gunpoint.
One of the bandits was soundly beaten while trying to escape, while the others surrendered to police after hiding in a nearby yard.
Police sources said that the robbers, aged between 22 and 24, were armed with two handguns, which were apparently not working. They also had a knife.
According to reports, restaurant owner Kum Puin Chuien, 36, and his wife closed the business just before midnight on Wednesday.
But unknown to them, one of the robbers had secreted himself in the restaurant washroom earlier in the night.
Chuien was asleep in the upper flat at around 1am yesterday and his wife was preparing a meal in the lower flat when the bandit emerged from the washroom and held her at gunpoint. He then opened a window to let his two accomplices in.
The woman began to scream and when her husband awoke and came to her aid, the bandits assaulted him.
They then forced the couple to hand over $500,000 and fled. However, the couple raised an alarm and several residents emerged from their homes and managed to nab one of the fleeing men, who is reportedly from a community in Ruimveldt. He was soundly beaten.
The other two, who are from Kara Kara, concealed themselves in a nearby yard, where police arrested them. Ranks then arrived and cordoned off the area.
Police recovered the firearms but the money has not been found.

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