Bandits target new Top Cop brother’s home

Apr 03, 2014 News

Police swooped down in the village of Agricola yesterday, after arresting a suspect, as they probed the early morning attack on a close relative of Seelall Persaud, the man performing the duties of Commissioner of Police.
The suspect, Aldrhen Adonis, was nabbed by members of a police mobile patrol as he was emerging from a bushy area near the scene of the robbery in the Eccles New Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara.

The suspect Aldrhen Adonis pleading his case yesterday

The man vehemently denied taking part in the robbery, claiming that his only crime was choosing a bushy alleyway to return to his home after leaving a shoemaker.
Of course the police are not buying his explanation, especially since he was one of the accused in the high profile robbery committed on persons who were escorting a Guysuco payroll on the West Bank of Demerara a few years ago.
Police sources said that earlier yesterday, Seeranie Persaud, the sister in law of Crime Chief Seelall Persaud, was at her home in Eccles with her maid, when five armed men entered through an open door in the bottom flat of the two-storey house.
The crime chief’s brother was not at home.
The men held up the two women and after slapping the maid several times, they relieved them of gold jewellery, a laptop computer, two cellular phones, US$700 and G$8000.
They then made good their escape unchallenged.
The matter was reported and police quickly went into action. When this newspaper ventured along East Bank Demerara, after receiving a report about the robbery, heavily armed police ranks were seen scouring the village of Agricola yesterday.
However apart from Adonis, there were no reports of anyone else being arrested.