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Bandit nabbed after robbing fisherman of day’s earnings

Feb 26, 2012 News

 

 

 

A fisherman was robbed all of his day’s sales while making his way home yesterday morning. Salim Khan, 42, of Friends Village, East Bank Berbice said that he was riding home on his bicycle after selling fish at Edinburgh and Glasgow around 09:30 hrs when “about 10 feet away in the road corner, I noticed a person hiding in the bushes. (The man) ran out and pulled the shirt over he head and run into me”.
Khan said, “I tried to escape but I couldn’t make it to escape so he pointed a knife on me back and ordered me to give him all my money so I had to do that– $15,000”.
The incident occurred in the Belleview area, just near where the Berbice Mining Enterprises (Bermine) operations were located.
Khan told this newspaper that after relieving him of his earnings, the man ran away and collected his cycle that was in the trench. “He turned back in the direction of New Amsterdam and just then a motorbike was coming and I hollered”.
When he screamed for help, the bandit turned back and started to head for Khan again.
“I then stopped a car and showed them the man and told them that he just robbed me and a passenger in the car was an ex- policeman and we kicked off after him. We run he about 100 feet in the bush and scrambled he,” he related.
But Khan did not get back his money. He concluded that it must have been dispersed in the bushes or water during the scuffle to get the bandit under control.
“We ended up in the bush trying to hold up the man and arrest he, so we ain’t know where all the money gone. We searched the area but found nothing…We ended up all in the water fighting,” he related.
The bandit was then taken to the Sisters’ Police Station and was later transferred to the Central Police Station lock- ups where he remains.
Khan stated that he knows the bandit well. He described the man as a regular customer of his.

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