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Cops rescue abducted woman, capture bandits after shootout

Dec 30, 2014 News

Police anti-crime patrols in the city yesterday thwarted an alleged abduction and later traded bullets with bandits who had earlier committed a robbery. Their actions have come in for high praise.
In the first case the police rescued a woman who claimed that she was abducted by a group of men from a house in Diamond, East Bank Demerara.
The same patrol unit came under fire an hour later from gunmen who led them on a high speed chase that ended in ‘B’ Field, Sophia.
Reports reaching this newspaper stated that yesterday morning, a group of men who are associated with a popular Alberttown bar abducted a female from a house at Diamond where she was hiding to avoid paying for some drugs that had disappeared.
The woman was being taken to a house on Caneview Avenue when the police who were alerted to a car load of suspicious looking men, intercepted the vehicle at the Festival City exit. In the car were four men and a woman, who begged the police to arrest her.
The police placed the woman into their vehicle and in tears she told them that the men had abducted her.
The police believed her story since a search of the car unearthed a 9mm pistol.
The ranks then headed towards the Sophia home of one of the men to carry out further investigations, but while on their way, they were called upon to back-up another patrol unit that was pursuing a car with men who had just committed a robbery on Sheriff Street.
They intercepted that car in the Sophia area and as the police closed in, the driver of the car in his bid to elude the patrol, lost control of the vehicle, plunging into a trench.
Two of the occupants managed to exit the car and escape, while the police captured two of their accomplices.
In the car the ranks found a computer, which they later confirmed was stolen during the robbery.

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