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“Hungry” bandit caught after robbing granny, 76

Oct 15, 2014 News

Quick action by ranks of a police anti-crime patrol unit on the East Coast of Demerara led to the apprehension of a knife-wielding bandit, minutes after he robbed a female pensioner of a paltry $276, claiming that he was hungry. The incident occurred in the village of Enterprise around 13:30 hours yesterday.
The 22-year-old bandit, whose name was given as Keon Thomas of Nabaclis, was lucky that the police exercised restraint while arresting him, even though he had attacked a rank with the knife he was carrying.
Kaieteur News understands that the bandit placed a knife to the throat of 76-year-old Carmen Gardener and relieved her of the pittance she was carrying, in the full view of bewildered residents.
He did not get far when a mobile police patrol headed by Corporal Johnson travelled through the area.
The angry onlookers alerted the ranks and, given a description of the bandit, they were pointed to the direction in which he had fled. The ranks gave chase and managed to corner him not too far away from the scene of the crime.
But when one of the ranks approached him with a view to carrying out the arrest, the bandit brandished the knife in a threatening manner. However he was no match for the policeman who with a little assistance from his colleague, managed to subdue the suspect and take him into custody.
The pensioner’s money was found in his pants pocket.
When questioned by the police as to why he would want to rob an elderly woman of such a meagre sum of money, Thomas said that he was hungry and did not have anything to eat, since he was not getting a job.
“He will get plenty food in the prison because is straight deh he goin’,” one of the ranks declared.

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