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TPL $17M heist…Security guard still in custody

Aug 17, 2013 News

 

Police have released three Toolsie Persaud Limited (TPL) staffers, but are still questioning a fourth in connection with Thursday’s $17M heist in Charlestown.
Kaieteur News understands that the two accounts clerks and one of the security guards were released on station bail yesterday. However, another security guard, who was also employed as a driver, remained in custody.
The detained guard is said to be an ex-policeman.
Investigators have reportedly checked the employees’ cell phones to see if they had made any suspicious calls prior to the robbery. Police still seem to still suspect that the crime was staged.
The two accounts clerks, who were accompanied by two armed security guards, were on their way to a Water Street bank in a pickup when they were reportedly forced to stop at Sussex and Charles Streets, Charlestown, to avoid hitting a pedestrian.
According to sources, the staffers claimed that the same ‘pedestrian’ then drew a firearm and pointed it at one of the armed guards, who is also employed as a driver. It is alleged that the gunman then relieved the employees of some $16.9 million, a loaded .32 Taurus pistol and .32 Taurus revolver. He reportedly then escaped in a silver-grey car.
But Kaieteur News understands that persons who were in the area at the time claimed that they did not see when the men were robbed. Some only observed the employees running and saying that they had been robbed.

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