Burglars invade Regent Street store

Jul 17, 2015 News

–cart off cash, documents

June Johnson, co-owner of 2Js General Store

While most people might have been snuggled up in bed safe from incessant rainfall in the wee hours of yesterday morning, two young men were busy gaining uninvited access to the 2Js General Store at 148 and 149 Regent Road, Bourda, Georgetown.

A part of their criminal activities was captured on closed circuit television installed at the store, at least before they proceeded to cut a power line.

The very identifiable burglars could be seen making their way through the store with the aid of their mobile phone lights. The recording of their activities started around 01:49 hours. Their destination was the office of the store situated on the bottom flat of the two-flat building. They were able to locate and carry away an undisclosed sum of money stashed in a cabinet and a bag of documents.

The money, according to co-owner of the store, June Johnson, represented the sales gained for a couple of days. “I didn’t go to the bank recently,” informed the woman as she speculated that the young men might have thought that the bag also contained money.

When asked about the precision of the intruders in finding the office and the possibility of it being an inside job, Johnson noted that “anybody could know where the office is; it is visible from outside…I don’t think it’s an inside job.”

It is believed that the bandits were able to access the property through this space in the lower part of the razor wire.

According to Johnson, she first learnt that something was amiss when she received a call from the MMC Security Service which is contracted to protect the property. The initial information filtered to her from the security service was that there was some activity at the building, but then it was believed that everything was okay.

However, close inspection from the security officers helped them to ascertain that someone had broken into the building.

“They called back and say something definitely wrong…they say to come down because there was a break-in…” Johnson recounted.

When she arrived at the store yesterday several police ranks were already on the scene. “They just did fingerprints and they said they will do a follow-up later,” Johnson related.

The woman during an interview disclosed that she was confident that no one could have accessed the store as the top of the perimeter fence is lined with razor wire, added to the fact that the property is protected by the security service.

Close inspection revealed that the men most likely accessed the property by cutting a section of the razor wire. It is believed that their activities were interrupted by the presence of the security officers which led them to force open a back gate in order to make good their escape.