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Regent Street business robbed
– more than $3M worth of items taken
The Rite Price Wireless store located at 94 Regent Street, Georgetown was robbed some time between 17:00 hrs on Saturday and 08:30 hours yesterday.
Mukesh Persaud, the father of the owner, Sabrina Persaud, said that his daughter is out of the country and her brother and himself were assisting with the store.
The crowbar used to pry open doors and display cases
Persaud said that he and another employee opened up the business shortly after 08.30 hours yesterday and discovered that person or persons unknown had broken into the business place, which also serves as a vendor for GT&T.
The building in which the electronic store was located is currently undergoing construction work and it was through this part of the building that the vandals entered.
Using a scaffold and other readily available footholds on the right side of the building, they climbed to the third floor and gained access through a window there. Going down the two flights of stairs, the robbers used a crowbar to rip out a section of the plywood wall at the back of the Rite Price storeroom.
They made their way through the store collecting the items they wanted, using the crowbar to prise open other doors and the locks off drawers and the display cases.
The items included cell phones and accessories, electronic cameras, batteries, brand name sunglasses, reading spectacles and frames among other items. Items were also taken from the repair section, including more than one thousand housings for cell phones.
Yesterday morning the owners were estimating their loss at $3.5 m and still counting.
(Ursulla Ramdayal)
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