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One jailed, three freed on arm robbery charge

Dec 31, 2017 News

One of four men who were on trial in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s court on a charge of robbery under arms, has been jailed while the other three were freed due to insufficient evidence.
Kevon Bunyan, called “Buddy”, 32, of 52 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, was found guilty by Magistrate Alex Moore and sentenced to three years in jail in his absence.
The others, Quincy Goodheart, 25, of 540 East Ruimveldt; Rudolph Mc Curdy, called “Rudy” 27, of 620 Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme; and Kurt Edwards, 23, of 188 Fort Ordnance, Housing Scheme, East Canje were freed. They were accused of robbing Nanda Ramkissoon Sankar, called “Babita”, of a quantity of cash and cell phone cards. They were also accused of taking a gold chain to the value of $1,146,340 property of Danny Sankar called “Dutty Dan.” The victims were proprietors of the E and B General Merchandise and Candy Shop of Lot 12/13 Strand, New Amsterdam.
The crime was committed on Tuesday March 15, 2016 at Strand Road, New Amsterdam. At the time they were armed with a gun.
Goodheart who was unmasked when he committed the act was captured the following night in a trench at Angoy’s Avenue.
During the robbery, the bandit had fired three shot from close range at the proprietors and a friend but had missed. Sankar had stated that it was the fourth time that he was robbed.
The men were also on trial on two charges of possession of arms and ammunition without being the holders of the required licence.
Bunyan and Goodheart had pleaded guilty to those charges and were jailed for two years each.
On Thursday March 17, at No 52 Stanleytown they had in their possession a .38 revolver and ammunition without being the holder of a licence.
Bunyan had taken the police to a house at No 52 Stanleytown. The police dug up an area and found a gun in a black plastic bag. One live round and one spent shell were found inside the gun.
Bunyan had told investigators that around 08:00 hrs on the day in question, he was given the gun to keep by Goodheart who told him that it was the gun that was used during the incident.
The men were released from prison early on the possession charges, but had stopped attending court on the other charges.

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