Driver of getaway car detained

Aug 05, 2017 News

…as cops try to probe linkage in E-Networks robbery
The driver of a dark blue Toyota Premio that was used in the robbery of E-Networks Inc. on Thursday, has been arrested as investigators try to determine whether it was the same gang that attacked another branch the previous day.
Kaieteur News understands that the vehicle was parked a short distance from E-Networks Inc’s Lot 15 Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara branch around 11:45 hrs on Thursday while the two bandits stormed the facility.
The bandits, one armed with a handgun, went into the store and took away the security guard’s gun as they held customers and staffers at gunpoint.
After robbing the entity, they ran towards the vehicle and the driver sped away. The car’s registration number was picked up on surveillance camera.
A police source said yesterday that the driver reportedly dropped off the robbers at the Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara stelling after which he headed to the West Bank Demerara where he was nabbed in the vicinity of Goed Fortuin.
The suspect—the driver of a private car— is claiming that he is a taxi driver and only dropped the men to the location and waited on them a little. He then claimed that when the men got into the car, and he took them to the stelling.
But the police are not buying his story. Now, the ranks are trying to locate the bandits and determine whether they were involved in the robbery which occurred around 15:00 hrs the previous day at another E-Networks outlet at a mall in Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.
In both robberies, the modus operandi is similar. In the case with the Cornelia Ida robbery, the police said that the gunmen, on entering, ordered two cashiers and seven customers to lie on the ground before tying their hands with plastic cuffs and relieving them of their valuables.
After getting their hands on the valuables, the robbers escaped in a car without firing any shots. No one was injured.
In the case involving the robbery at Mon Repos, two bandits, armed with a handgun, rushed into the E-Networks Store which is housed in the lower flat of the Mon Repos Mall.
After ordering staff and customers to lie on the floor, they relieved two sales representatives and three customers of their cash and electronic gadgets.

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