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Soldier raped female guard during fuel heist

Dec 11, 2009 News

The Guyana Defence Force corporal who was implicated in last Sunday’s fuel heist allegedly raped a female security guard while he and two gunmen attacked a GT&T facility on the Soesdyke/Linden highway.
A senior police official made this disclosure yesterday while stating that the soldier is likely to be charged with rape, armed robbery and possession of an unlicensed weapon.
He may also face other charges.
Sources said that the woman was sexually assaulted in the presence of one of her colleagues, when the rank and his accomplices stormed the GT&T facility at Hauraruni on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway.
Police are also looking for two other suspects in connection with the same robbery. One of the men is said to have had previous brushes with the law.
It is alleged that at around 03:10 hrs on Sunday, the army rank and two accomplices held two male security guards and their female colleague at gunpoint at the GT&T location at Hauraruni, Soesdyke/Linden Highway.
After tying up the guards and sexually assaulting the female, the robbers took away 23 five-gallon containers of dieseline, $15,000 and a cellular phone before escaping in a car.
The suspects were in the vicinity of Madewini when police ranks in a mobile patrol observed fuel leaking out of the vehicle the bandits were in. Police said that when the ranks challenged the occupants, one of the men exited the vehicle and shot at the policemen before he and his accomplices fled.
Police said they retrieved the stolen fuel, a 12-gauge shotgun with four cartridges, a pair of gloves and a camouflage hat and poncho from the vehicle.
According to reports, later that day, the GDF Corporal went to the Madewini Police Outpost and reported that his car had been stolen. The vehicle was the same one that the police had retrieved from the bandits.
However, after intense interrogation, the soldier reportedly confessed to having been the driver of the motorcar during the robbery.
Last Monday, police also arrested a GDF Lance Corporal following a botched armed robbery at Lima, Essequibo.
The rank and two other men had allegedly held 55-year-old vendor Clairmonte Scott at gunpoint after barging into his home.
Two of them were masked while the other wore a toque and they were all armed with handguns. They tied up Scott and took him outside leaving another occupant of the house unattended.
But the robbers were forced to flee empty-handed after someone rained an alarm.
The police at Anna Regina were contacted and based on the descriptions given of the men, ranks of a mobile police patrol which had been alerted, observed three men walking along the Reliance Public Road, Essequibo Coast.
Upon the approach of the police, the men scattered in different directions, but one of them was not lucky in his bid to escape.
He was subsequently identified by the victim as the assailant who was wearing the toque and was later found to be a Lance Corporal of the Guyana Defence Force, based at Maria’s Lodge, Essequibo Coast.
The toque was found in his pocket.
The police arrested two other suspects on the Columbia Public Road.
According to the police, one of them was seen hiding an object by a fence. It turned out that it was a black jersey, which concealed an unlicensed .32 Ruger revolver with four live rounds and a toque mask.

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