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Buxtonians help nab bandits after Digicel Outlet robbery

Mar 31, 2010 News

Residents of Buxton on the East Coast of Demerara yesterday proved that they should not be painted with one brush, after they helped to chase down and capture two bandits who had entered their village following a daring midday robbery at Mon Repos.
The bandits were apprehended when they fled into the community with a getaway car hoping to deter those giving chase from pursuing them into the once troubled village.
But they are now forced to look back with dread on their plans as villagers pounced on them and subsequently handed them over to the police.
A press release from police headquarters stated that at about 12:15 hours yesterday, three sales clerks at the Digicel Outlet at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, were attacked and robbed by three men, one of whom was armed with a gun.
According to the police, Anthony Singh, 21, along with two female clerks were in the outlet when the three men entered and held them at gunpoint. The employees were ordered to lie on the floor while the perpetrators took away an undisclosed sum of cash, a number of cell phones and a quantity of cell phone cards and escaped in a waiting motor car, PHH 4904, driven by an accomplice.
After the bandits left, Singh joined a taxi and gave chase behind the vehicle used by the perpetrators which headed into Buxton, along the Railway Embankment.
Realising that he was being lured into the once hostile village, Singh subsequently stopped, but was approached by a Rural Constable attached to a Police Station in Georgetown who was in the vicinity and enquired from him what the problem was.
Upon being informed of the robbery, the Rural Constable joined the taxi and continued the chase behind the bandits.
The police stated that, recognising that they were being followed, the four perpetrators abandoned the motor vehicle and ran. They were pursued by the Rural Constable and residents of the Buxton community which resulted in the apprehension of two of them, while the other two managed to escape.
The two captured bandits reportedly hail from the village of Clonbrook, further up the East Coast of Demerara.
The owner of the motor vehicle used in the robbery has been arrested and is also in police custody.

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