Cops release Riverview murder suspect; guard in $17M heist

Aug 21, 2013 News

Police appear to have reached a dead end in their investigations into the murder of Riverview resident Quincy Sooklall, and their probe into the $17M Toolsie Persaud Limited heist.
Kaieteur News understands that police have released a man whom they had described as a suspect in Sooklall’s murder. He was one of several people detained last Friday during police raids in several Georgetown communities.
Sooklall’s pellet-riddled body was pulled from the Demerara River on August 3. Police have received reports that he was killed during a botched robbery on a cargo boat that was moored near the Demerara River.
A security guard on the vessel had told police that he was attacked and beaten by a gang of men who boarded the vessel.
The incident reportedly occurred around Thursday, August 1, the same time that Sooklall is said to have been last seen alive.
According to police sources, the security guard alleged that one of the robbers was shot by a member of his own gang, and that the bandits threw the body overboard. The beaten guard reportedly managed to escape.
Meanwhile, police have also released the security guard who they had detained following last Thursday’s $17M heist in Charlestown. Two accounts clerks and another security guard were also questioned.
The Toolsie Persaud Limited employees 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 employees claimed that the same ‘pedestrian’ then relieved them of a bag containing some $16.9 million, a loaded .32 Taurus pistol and .32 Taurus revolver. The robber reportedly escaped in a silver-grey car.
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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