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Fuel truck hijacking…No trace of fuel truck, possibility hijacking was inside job
Police have found no traces of fuel truck GSS 1819, which was hijacked along the 15-Mile Mabura Road on Saturday. Searches in the area yesterday failed to discover the truck.
Antonio Jardine
According to a source in ‘E’ Division yesterday, the police are exploring the possibility that the hijacking might have been an inside job.
During the hijacking the 43-year-old driver, Antonio Jardine and his son, 16-year- old Trevor were reportedly robbed, stripped of their clothes, and had their truck, which was transporting two barrels of fuel, hijacked.
The men, who hail from 160-161 New Road, Vreed-En-Hoop, West Coast Demerara were then left to fend for themselves at 01:00hr.
Their family is up in arms over their detention by the police. Up to 18:30hrs yesterday the two had not been released from custody.
According to reports Antonio Jardine was driving the fuel along the 15-Mile Mabura Road, Linden, with Trevor Jardine as a porter.
The truck was transporting drums of fuel worth approximately $4M. Speaking to Kaieteur News, Antonio’s wife, Dawn, related that the bandits were reportedly in a silver gray car with obscured licence plates.
According to her, the men were able to loosen the spare wheel from the back of the truck unknowing to the Jardines.
The car then drove ahead until it was abreast with Antonio and the occupants informed him of his spare wheel which had fallen and was lying on the road behind.
16-year-old Trevor Jardine
Not foreseeing the danger of stopping at such an hour, Jardine reportedly parked the truck. It was then that he and his son were held at gunpoint by one of the occupants of the car and ordered to exit the truck.
They did so and were reportedly beaten and stripped of their clothing, after which their clothes were searched. One of the car’s occupants then climbed into the truck, threw out Jardine’s clothes and driver’s licence and drove off in the direction of 47 Mile (towards Mahdia).
The man’s wife related that they were eventually rescued by a passing truck and subsequently detained for questioning by the police.
“The police said the driver planned the robbery. Since (Saturday) I don’t know where my son is,” She said. “For 25 years my husband work with this company. Why would he do that?”
Edward Jardine, the father of Antonio decried the fact that his son is a victim, yet is not being treated so. He noted that Antonio is a diabetic and all of his medication was in the truck when it was hijacked.
He explained that investigators have focused their suspicion on his son, who has been employed with the owner of the fuel truck for the past 25 years. He was adamant that his son would never orchestrate such a plot.
Edward Jardine stated that the owner of the fuel truck had even defended his embattled employee; including telling the police that he would put his head on a block for him.
Efforts to contact Commander of ‘E’ Division Calvin Brutus were futile.
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