Con-artist in hot water after tricking taxi driver

Dec 17, 2014 News

An alleged trickster, who allegedly tried to con a taxi driver early yesterday, was thwarted when a police officer showed up in the nick of time and dragged him out of the minibus he had boarded on Regent Street.
The suspect is currently at the Brickdam Police Station assisting with information.
Taxi driver, Steve Mootoo, said that around 07:00 hrs yesterday, a worker attached to a snackette on New Market Street, Georgetown, called to inform him that a client was in the fast food outlet and needed a cab.
“The people at the snackette would normally call me when clients want a taxi, so they did the same this morning (yesterday). When I went there, this guy came in the car and he said he wanted to go up the East Coast of Demerara,” the taxi driver explained.
He further revealed that the man instructed him to take him to a house in Enmore.
“When we reach the house, he came out the car and he called, but no one answered, so he jump in back the car and tell me to drop him at Speedy at Success. He went in and talk to the employer and then he come out back,” Mootoo noted.
He added that man who identified himself as “Ryan” then requested that he (taxi driver) take him back to the city.
“He had me driving from Wellington to Camp Street, and then he asked me to drop him to the City Mall. Before he left the car, he asked me to borrow $5,000. He told me to pick up his daughter who was at the bank (a stone’s throw from the mall) and then go back to the mall for him,” the driver recalled.
The driver told this newspaper that when he reached in front of the bank and did not notice any female waiting on him, he immediately drove back to the mall.
“I suspect something was wrong, so instead of stopping at the front entrance of the mall, I stopped and parked at the back and I see him (Ryan). He was coming out of the mall, so I went up to him and tell him that I didn’t see anyone, and he tell me to go back now, the girl waiting on me, so I left him there to go back to the bank,” Mootoo related.
According to the taxi driver, while driving to the bank from the mall, he looked through his rear view mirror and noticed the man getting into a mini bus.
“I turn back and drive behind the bus and I notice a police officer and I told him that I was robbed.
The police stopped the bus and collected him. He identified himself to the cop,” the taxi driver said.
He was subsequently taken to the Brickdam Police Station.
“This man seems genuine. You can never tell he is a trickster. He has gold teeth and his entire body was covered in tattoo,” the cab driver related.
The alleged con artist will be going to Court today.

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