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Taxi driver admits to transporting bandits to victims’ home

Jul 05, 2018 News

The taxi driver who was apprehended after Tuesday’s robbery at Alliance, Canal Number Two Polder, West Bank Demerara, has reportedly admitted to transporting two bandits to the scene. But he has refuted being part of the plan.
The driver was apprehended shortly after the attack, in which the robbers were said to have been badly injured.
Police said that the driver had originally denied taking the men to the home of the mechanic who was robbed of some $700,000.
While continuing to deny knowing the men, he has since told investigators that the men hired him to take them to the airport, but said they wanted to go “over the river” first.
He then took them to the victims’ house at Alliance, Canal Number Two Polder.
Sometime later, he said, the men ran outside and entered his car.
Police have said that they found a bloodstained garments and bloodstains in the driver’s blue NZE Toyota when they apprehended him.
Police said that a 31-year-old mechanic, who is also a businessman, was sleeping in a hammock under a shed in his yard at around 02:00hrs on Tuesday when two men armed with handguns confronted him and demanded valuables. They then took him inside his house and, in the presence of a sibling, relieved him of a large sum of cash.
During the ordeal, the suspects gun-butted the siblings, but the brothers fought back and managed to disarm one of the intruders after the magazine fell out of his gun.
The brothers then armed themselves with implements and wounded the robbers, who fled in the waiting vehicle.
Police said that the victims pursued the car but were forced to retreat after they were reportedly fired upon.
Police, after a brief chase, intercepted the car at Leonora, West Coast Demerara.
A suspected bloodstained jersey and traces of blood were found inside.
Two live 9mm rounds were found at the scene and an unlicensed 9MM pistol, allegedly taken from one of the two armed suspects during a struggle, have been handed over to the police.

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