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Ex-con hijacks car, leaves partner behind in taxi
– Vehicle later found abandoned
The cops are on the hunt for an ex-convict, who jumped into someone’s car and sped away, leaving his partner behind in a taxi on Saturday at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara.
The car that was recovered yesterday.
The car was later found abandoned yesterday on Stone Avenue, Campbellville, with a fake registration number written on a piece of cardboard and pasted on the front and back of the vehicle.
According to reports, the suspect, who was recently released from prison and his partner were in a taxi, heading up East Coast Demerara, when he spotted a man at Lusignan, wearing a gold chain.
Kaieteur News was informed that the suspect allegedly jumped out of the car and approached his victim but realized that the man had left his car door open.
“The man (victim) stopped to buy barbeque and he left his car door open and this one (suspect) jump in the car and drive away,” a police source said.
The source further explained that upon realizing what had happened, the taxi driver turned off his car and raised an alarm after which the suspect’s partner was apprehended by persons in the vicinity and handed over to the cops.
Reports are that the young man gave ranks the identity of the suspect and his address. “We were in the process of searching in Sophia when we found the car at Campbellville.”
In 2014, the suspect was remanded to prison after he barged into a woman’s home and held her at gunpoint while demanding cash.
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