Latest update December 23rd, 2024 3:40 AM
Rampaging bandits captured after robbery spree
The police are expected to conduct identification parades and charges are likely
The Caribbean Cuisine Restaurant which was robbed by the bandits.
soon as investigations continue into the spate of robberies conducted on Thursday evening by three men in the East Bank Berbice, East Canje areas.
Three men who allegedly committed a series of robberies were nabbed by police who acted quickly upon receiving the reports about the roving gang. During the escapade, one victim who put up a fight was shot while a pastor and his family were also robbed.
The bandits who were armed with a gun and cutlasses, began their reign of terror around 20:30 hrs at the home of Sunfarjeet Seepersaud, 50, at Glasgow Housing Scheme, East Berbice.
Seepersaud, speaking to the media from his hospital bed, stated that on the night of the incident, he was having dinner when the family was attacked.
One of the bandits quietly slipped upstairs and told them to remain quiet. As the bandits slipped into the house the door closed behind them. Seepersaud said that he started to scuffle with the bandits. He said that he took an insect spray can and hit one of them.
The bandits then shot the man who was putting up a fight even as Seepersaud called out to his son to bring the cutlass. They then made good their escape. The injured man was then rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital. The bullet is still lodged in his abdomen. They escaped with a cell phone and some cash
The bandits then proceeded to a nearby house to confront Stanley McKenzie as he was parking his motor vehicle. They took away his motor vehicle and drove to East Canje, around 21:00 hrs where they invaded the home of Karmanand Ramash, 53, a pastor and school teacher.
From that attack, they escaped with approximately $300,000 in cash and jewelry. During the 15-minute ordeal, Ramesh stated that, he and his family came home from a Good Friday service and was having a snack in the bottom flat of the house when the three bandits invaded their home. They were forced to lay face down. During the ordeal, the thieves threatened to take his grandson’s life if they did not provide more valuables.
The bandits then went over to the Caribbean Cuisine Restaurant where they held up the bartender and took away her cell phone and $20,000 before escaping.
The bandits then travelled to Lot 1027 New Area Canefield, East Canje, where they invaded the home of Emaan Singh and his family around 21:25 hrs robbing them of their cash, jewelry and cell phones before fleeing the scene.
A relative stated that Singh and a friend were having dinner when three men, two of whom were fully masked and one unmasked, entered their home.
The bandits just appeared in the house and told them to lay down. The family was gun butted, cuffed and kicked in their backs and Singh was slapped behind his head.
The bandits also took away an Iphone worth $240,000, a Samsung Galaxy phone, a Samsung tablet, over $300,000 in jewelry, $120,000 in local cash and US$14,000.
The bandits also escaped with overseas automated teller machine cards and Singh’s driver’s licence.
The police are now looking for a fourth man who they believe is the mastermind behind the spate of robberies.
The car allegedly used in the robbery was found abandoned in a cross street next to a burial ground in Cumberland. It is suspected that the car is the same one that was stolen earlier from Stanley McKenzie.
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