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Armed bandit robs furniture store

Jun 13, 2013 News

 

 

Police are now on the lookout for an armed bandit who pretended to be a potential buyer to a sales clerk and walked away with more than $50,000, following a robbery at a newly opened furniture store.
According to the sales clerk, around 10:50 am yesterday, a man walked into the Bibi’s Furniture Store on Saffon Street and enquired about a sofa which was in the show room.
he shaken woman added that the man then asked about payment plans before he pulled out a knife and requested that she take him to the cash register.
“He told me to go and open the register and he took out the money and he tek off me chain and tell me if I say anything or raise an alarm he gon kill me,” the woman said.
She added that the man then walked up to Bacchus’ Drugs Store where he jumped onto a CG motorcycle and rode off.
The store remained closed after the incident as police continue their investigations.

 

 

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