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At least five persons, including a businessman, fell victim to a burglary over the weekend. The family has estimated its losses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars after thieves entered their Lot 207 Yurbani Avenue, Eccles East Bank Demerara home.
According to reports, Ronney Jodha, the owner of Plus Printing, discovered around 23:00hours on Saturday last that persons had broken into his property and had stolen a quantity of documents and local and foreign currencies.
Kaieteur News was told that the family had recently travelled to Guyana to attend the funeral of a family member. According to the proprietor, the family had left their home on Saturday evening around 20:00hours. When they returned to the house, Jodha said he noticed that the front door of his house was broken.
The business place/ house that was broken into.
The man continued that he ventured further in the home and noticed that the bedroom doors of three other occupants were also broken. On checking, the man said he noticed that the house was ransacked. He said he immediately called the police and later went to the police station to make a report.
According to the businessman, Canadian passports, citizen cards, credit cards, bank cards, insurance cards and even health cards were stolen from the home. Apart from that, at least US$1,500, C’dn $3,000 and $200,000 in local currency.
A quantity of cell phones and gold and diamond jewelry were also taken from the victims’ home.
The matter is currently with the police and investigations are ongoing.
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