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Bandits hit Guy-America Furniture Store

Aug 23, 2012 News

Police are probing a daring robbery committed on the Guy-America Furniture Store on Mandela Avenue early yesterday morning, in which two gun-toting youths snatched more than $800,000 from the business’ female Sales Manager, Sandy Gobin.
The woman was attacked about two minutes after she arrived at the store.
Kaieteur News understands that the bandits, who appeared to be in their early twenties, seemed to be very specific about what they wanted. They entered the store and immediately placed a gun to Gobin’s head and demanded that she hand over the bag she was carrying over her shoulder.
When the woman hesitated, one of the bandits threatened to shoot her.
Eventually they grabbed the bag containing $860,000 – money that was to be used to pay workers.
Before leaving the men relieved another employee, Nizam Khan, of his cellular phone and escaped on bicycles.
Another staff member by the name of Kumar Panchan said he was outside and upon entering the store he saw the Sales Manager crying. After learning that she had just been robbed he ran back outside to see if the two youths were still there, but the robbers had already disappeared.
Police later arrived on the scene but the victims were not impressed with their response.
However, they retrieved closed circuit television footage but the images are reportedly not of good quality to aid in the identification of the perpetrators.
According to the staffers, the store was robbed many times before in the past.

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