Corentyne businessman cries out after latest truck robbery incident

Sep 25, 2014 News

… Over $2.4M stolen in past months
Two bandits robbed a Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) distributor truck of $500,000 around 12:30 hrs on Monday at Crabwood Creek, Corentyne. While the driver was taking orders at a shop, one bandit kept watch, while the other ransacked the truck cabin and stole the money that represented much of that day’s sales.
The entire episode was captured on surveillance camera.
Rajendra Parasram of Section ‘A’, Number 62 Village, an authorized DDL Distributor in Berbice, is contending that this latest incident follows several others that have taken place over the past months. More than $2.4M has been stolen in the past months by bandits who robbed his trucks and their drivers.
This latest incident, he stated, left the driver L. Singh, 29, of Number 61 Village, in a state of shock.
Parasram said that on Monday, Singh’s truck was parked at a customer, Haresh Rama’s residence at Crabwood Creek, while he was inside taking orders.
Two men then came out from an alley around the area. One of them was keeping watch on the road while the other went in the truck cabin. “The money was stored in a compartment….he (the bandit) started to tumble,” Parasram added.
The bandit then jumped out of the truck and made good his escape with his accomplice.
Singh, upon, entering the truck then noticed what had taken place. He revisited the customer, related what transpired and was told that the area was under surveillance cameras. The police visited the site, examined the cameras and the footage was viewed. Persons around the area were also questioned, but no one has been arrested.
The businessman is frustrated over the many incidents of robbery over the past months, where many of his trucks and their drivers were robbed of large sums of cash at various locations along the Corentyne Coast. The police have come up empty- handed in all of the cases.
The last incident involved a truck selling DDL beverages along Kingston Road, Corriverton, on January 15 when $408,000 was stolen by bandits.
In March, bandits stole $590,000 from a truck doing business at Number 53 Village, Corentyne. Another robbery took place at Number 68 Village, on April 8; $722,000 was stolen. “
The businessman believes the acts are being committed by the same persons, presumably driving a white Raum and silver-grey 192 vehicles, since vehicles of such descriptions were spotted after previous robberies during the past months.
(Leon Suseran)

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