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Truck driver and porter admit to staging robbery

Jan 30, 2016 News

-$1.2M missing, $30,000, laptop, cell phones recovered
It was a dramatic and harrowing tale of a driver and porter being waylaid on a dark roadway, before being robbed and locked in their truck by masked gunmen.
The only trouble was that the ‘victims’ were in fact the robbers.
Police said that Kenrick Duncan, a truck driver of Annandale, East Coast Demerara and Noel Munroe, a porter of D’Urban Street, have admitted to staging the robbery and making off  with $1.2M and a laptop belonging to their employer, Continental Group of Companies last Thursday night.
They were ably assisted by a cousin of Munroe’s, and two other men.
Duncan, Munroe and the cousin are in custody, and police are looking for the two others.
They have recovered about $35,000, the laptop computer and two cell phones.
It was last Thursday night that Duncan and Munroe turned up at the Leonora Police Station and spewed out their heart-wrenching story.
The men alleged that they were travelling in the vicinity of La Union, West Coast Demerara around 18.40 hrs, when the occupants of a white Toyota Raum blocked their path.
They claimed that two masked men emerged, held them at gunpoint, and forced them to hand over $1.2M, a laptop, and two cell phones.
According to the employees, the ‘gunmen’ then used a hasp and staple to lock them in the back of the truck before escaping.
Duncan and Munroe claimed that they remained imprisoned in the back of the truck until passersby  released them.
But when police observed that the hasp and staple on the truck were undamaged, they became suspicious about the victims’ story.
Under rigorous interrogation, the two employees eventually admitted that they had staged the ‘robbery’.  They had reportedly handed over the stolen money to a cousin of Munroe’s, who drove a Toyota Raum. The cousin also told the police that he had given one of two other accomplices the money.
The suspects also revealed that they had dumped the laptop near a trench, and this was recovered after the suspects took the police back to the scene.

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