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Bandits shoot at car, rob businesswoman after airport trip – Suspects arrested later in vehicle with guns, ammo, false plates
A businesswoman is counting her lucky stars after being tracked by bandits from the Ogle Airport and then having her car shot at, after which she was robbed of a package that she had just collected at the airport. The police later arrested three suspects, one of whom used to work for the woman.
Three suspects arrested after yesterdays robbery
The victim, who operates a taxi service in Seaforth Street, Campbellville, received a call yesterday morning from her mother in Region One to collect a package from the Ogle Airport. The woman said she arrived at the airport at around 10:40 hours and spent about five minutes before collecting the package and leaving. She said that she then drove to Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara, where she resides.
The woman claims that she was in the vicinity of Pigeon Island, when she noticed a car following close behind. She said she stopped to let the car pass, but the vehicle was driven alongside her and stopped in a position that did not allow her to move.
A man quickly exited the other car with a gun in his hand, and discharged one shot at her car window that was closed at the time. Immediately after doing so, his words to her were, “wheh de package wid de money deh?”
She said the package contained two letters, one bottle of cologne, and approximately $90,000 in cash. The woman was convinced that the whole incident was a set-up, since CCTV footage from the airport showed a Silver Toyota Premio going to the airport at 10:30 hours, after which the woman’s car came in at 10:40 hours and spent five minutes then left. The Silver car, bearing registration plates HC 7549,
The guns and ammunition seized
followed the woman’s car out of the airport.
A report was made to the police after the robbery.
Meanwhile, last evening, police acting on information went to Princes and High Streets, where they intercepted a Silver Toyota Premio bearing registration plates, HC6573, that was parked close to the Infiniti Gas Station.
The driver identified as Casey Chapman a 27-year-old taxi driver of South Sophia, along with Adam McDonald, a 30-year-old miner of South Amelia’s Ward, Linden, and Sheldon Andrews, a 24-year-old taxi driver of West Ruimveldt, were all arrested and a search of the car unearthed one black and silver 9mm pistol with twelve rounds of matching ammunition, and a black .32 Taurus Pistol with seven
The car that the suspects were in when apprehended
matching rounds of ammunition from under the driver’s seat in a black plastic bag. There was also a pair of ‘paste on’ car tags (PRR 4987).
The men were escorted to the Ruimveldt Police Station, where they were placed in custody, as investigations continue
Kaieteur News has since learnt that one of the men arrested (Sheldon Andrews) had worked with the woman at her taxi service sometime in the past.
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