Thieves fail to cut through safe with $5M at Mahaicony Post Office

Oct 03, 2012 News

Thieves, using a welding torch, failed in their bid to cut into a solid steel safe containing over $5M at the Mahaicony Post Office yesterday morning.
They had already cut a hole into the steel but apparently ran out of time, which led to an abandonment of their mission.
The target was the cash that was earmarked to make pension payments, and investigators believe that the thieves are fully acquainted with the movement of cash by the Guyana Post Office Corporation.
Reports reaching this newspaper stated that the money was secured in the vault on Monday afternoon.
Yesterday when the Post Mistress turned up for work she found that the place was not how she had left it.
Upon closer examination, she discovered that someone had attempted to torch their way into the safe that held millions of dollars in cash. The matter was immediately reported to the police.
Police believe that the thieves operated between 01:00 and 04:30 hours yesterday.
Residents living in close proximity to the Post Office reported hearing dogs barking incessantly around that time.
The thieves gained entry by breaking open the back door of the partially dilapidated building.
They left behind a piece of tarpaulin, which investigators believe was used to block out the light from the welding torch.
“This place old, if you see how the flooring rotten,” one Mahaicony resident told Kaieteur News.
This newspaper was told that the facility has no security guard.
Only recently in the wake of a rash of high-profile burglaries, the Guyana Post Office Corporation had indicated that they had started the implementation of new security measures to deter bandits at its district offices.
The GPOC has been hit by a number of burglaries, one of which was committed at the Beterverwagting Post Office, from where bandits carted off $5.7 million after torching two safes.
Gunmen had also ambushed a car transporting cash for the corporation and had escaped with millions of dollars.

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