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Cops search Tucville yard for stolen RDC cash

Feb 25, 2011 News

– official’s son, nephew, driver likely to be charged

Police are seeking legal advice to know whether they can institue charges against five suspects in connection with the recent multi-million-dollar heist at Linden’s Regional Democratic Office (RDC).
Indications are that some of the suspects have admitted their involvement in the incident.
The son of an RDC official, the official’s nephew, his driver, a Tucville resident and a woman are among those in custody.
A source said that police had released some of the suspects last week but kept them under surveillance.
According to a source, a Linden resident with inside information about the RDC office recruited two men from Georgetown to carry out the heist.
Kaieteur News understands that on Wednesday, last, police searched a yard in Critchlow Street, Tucville, after being told that some of the stolen loot was buried there. However, nothing was found.
Divisional Commander, Assistant Commissioner David Ramnarine, had revealed that the police received information which caused them to send a team to an area in Georgetown around 03:00 hours on Wednesday. There they arrested three men and a woman, who were all taken to Linden.
Ramnarine said that his detectives informed him that they were on the way to making significant inroads into solving the matter.
Immediately after the robbery, the police had swooped down on a house that the Regional official’s son frequented and confiscated a device used when welding. Detectives had also impounded a vehicle that they believed was used to transport the loot.
The thieves escaped with $5.4M in cash and a number of cheques after torching a safe in the RDC office.
According to Regional Chairman, Mortimer Mingo, the guard alleged that one of the robbers held him at gunpoint and relieved him of the keys to the building.
The man’s accomplices then reportedly entered the Accounts Department, and with the aid of a welding torch, gained access to the Council’s safe, and escaped with the cash, and about $3 million in cheques.
Unconfirmed reports indicate that the torch was the same one that was stolen from the RDC some months ago.

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