Cops, bandits exchange gunfire following Supermarket robbery

Jul 18, 2015 News

– four held

Police, working round the clock, yesterday apprehended four suspects in connection with Thursday’s robbery at the M. Ali and Sons Supermarket at Main and Pope Street in New Amsterdam.
Following the robbery it was high drama during the night as the police were hot on the heels on the thieves. They set up various dragnets and encountered the men at various periods during the night during which gunshots were exchanged.
Police sources said that three of the detained men participated in the attack at the supermarket, during which one robber accidently
shot another in the hand while trying to shoot a female employee. Kaieteur News understands that the victims positively identified the wounded man, who goes by the name of ‘Shawn.’ He is still at large.
One of the men was described as “a known criminal from Berbice,” while two others are said to be from the West Bank of Demerara and the east Coast of Demerara.
According to information the robbery was committed by four known bandits, two of whom had entered the supermarket whilst the other two waited outside.
After the robbery the men then split up and using bicycles and other means, headed to a house at Stanleytown, Berbice, where they quickly changed, boarded a taxi and headed to the car park.
The cops also got word that the men had headed to Stanleytown and immediately raced to the dilapidated house where they encountered a man and a woman. They both denied that anybody was there.
The police were subsequently informed that four men were seeking transportation at the car park near the New Amsterdam Stelling. On arriving there, police saw a man with a gun emerge from a vehicle. A police ranks opened fire, causing the men to flee.
The driver whose name was given as Levi Morgan of Islington, New Amsterdam was arrested. Another man, said to be a resident of Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara, was also arrested in the vicinity. He told investigator that he did not know the others and had just arrived from Suriname.
The police continued their manhunt and condoned off a large area. Around 01:30 hrs yesterday, police encountered two men near Republic Road and Philadelphia.
There was brief exchange of gunfire before the men escaped. One was said to be the injured man, known as ‘Gun Youth’ of 37 Stanleytown, who is alleged to have shot at the police with the stolen 9mm. pistol which belongs to Feroze Ally. The other is said to be career criminal, Anthony Primo, called ‘Dangerous’.
Primo is said to be the ring leader while Alexander was the contact man from Berbice.
Around 03.00 hrs yesterday, the police later arrested a man, who was covered in mud, who was heading into King Street, New Amsterdam. He was found with a .38 snub nose revolver. It had six rounds in the magazine while he had four rounds in his pocket.
The suspect was identified as Kerwin Williams, of Wismar, Linden. He reportedly told the police about the planned heist and the movements and getaway plans.
Police subsequently arrested another man with a firearm in New Amsterdam. He has been identified as Andrew David, of Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara.
They are in custody as the hunt continues for the others
The police in a release stated that about 1900h on Thursday, two men armed with handguns entered the business place of M. Ali and Sons on Main Street, New Amsterdam, while two others remained outside.
The two men held up Nazmoon Ali, 64, and a salesgirl in the Supermarket, and took away a licensed 9mm. pistol, $350,000 and a number of phone cards.
As the two men were leaving, one of them discharged a round in the direction of the salesgirl, but hit his accomplice instead. The robbers and two others managed to escape.
The police responded promptly to the report and acting on information, went to the New Amsterdam car park at Strand Road were four men, who were in a vehicle, scattered upon seeing the police. The ranks however managed to arrest one of them.
The police subsequently arrested another suspect at Strand Road and King Street, New Amsterdam, in whose possession was found an unlicensed .38 revolver along with 10 matching rounds.
A patrol later confronted two men along Republic Avenue, New Amsterdam, during which there was an exchange of gunfire, but the men managed to escape.
Further investigations led to the arrest of a man at Stanleytown, New Amsterdam.

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