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Bandits storm Enmore lumberyard, escape with $1.6M in cash, jewelry

Dec 22, 2011 News

 

Police ranks are presently reviewing tapes from a security camera to identify two gunmen who robbed the “S & K Lumber Yard and General Store”, located at Blossom Scheme, Enmore South, East Coast Demerara.
Reports are that around 08:30 yesterday morning, two men armed with guns entered the premises and began threatening customers and employees of the business, as they ordered everyone to lie face down on the floor.
The owner, Sohodra Kuldip, said she was not at home at the time of the incident but she told Kaieteur News that her daughter, Kaminne Latchman, was.
“My daughter was cooking in the kitchen upstairs and one of the gunmen come to she and asking for money, gold and they keep asking for me. She keep telling him she don’t know where I was. He carry she into the bedroom and ransack the place looking for valuables. He gone away with all my gold jewelry… I had plenty US and Canadian currency with some local money and all that gone,” the woman explained in tears.
She told this newspaper that the man used the gun to hit her daughter in her back. Her son-in-law, Amar Lall, was gun-butted in his stomach by the other bandit.
“Them knock me daughter in she back with a gun and my son-in-law get hit in he stomach with a gun too. Is me alone does run this place. Me husband died and gone and is just me alone. I don’t know why people would do this to innocent people. Them can’t come in the night. I got security camera and everything and they do this in daylight.”
Kaieteur News was made to understand that one of the men carried a large gun while the other carried a smaller one.
The men reportedly escaped in a green Toyota 212 vehicle bearing number plates PMM 1590.
The Community Policing Group (CPG) in the area was alerted but by the time they arrived at the location, the bandits had already fled.
According to a police statement, the estimated cost of the jewelry amounted to $660,000 while around US$5,000 was also stolen.

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