POLICE reported that they have arrested two men on March 27, 2015, in a house at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, in which a firearm and ammunition and narcotics were found. The men have been identified as being two of the men, who posed as police and conducted an illegal roadblock at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, on March 18, 2015, and committed an armed robbery on some salesmen.
The investigations are continuing.
At Grove, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, three men dressed in police regulation colours of blue shirts and black trousers flagged down a Canter truck with three employees of Royal Chicken of Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara and relieved of cash.
The armed robbery took place at a very dismal area at about 21:00 hrs on March 19, 2015
At the time, the workers were heading to their place of work when they encountered the men dressed in police clothes after which they were taken to a dam where the robbers tied them up and broke into a canister and took the day’s sales.
The employees, including the driver and two porters, were left tied up in the locked tray of the truck and after sometime they managed to free themselves and reported the crime to the police.
It is believed that the two men, who are in police custody pending a probe, also posed as cops on August 2, 2014. They allegedly stopped a husband and a wife along with a taxi driver on their way to the CJIA and identified themselves as policemen claiming they were investigating an accident and took them to a dismal area at Soesdyke where they were tied up and robbed of cash and jewellery amounting to millions.
The victims, a private school teacher, Latchmin Gopaul, her husband, Lekraj Gopaul of Hague, West Coast Demerara, and taxi driver, Parmanand Teekaram of Cornelia Ida, were travelling on their way to the airport to go on vacation overseas about 11:00 hrs when they were stopped at Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara.
A week before, Pastor Sewnauth Poonalall of the Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church was gun-butted and robbed shortly after returning from the airport with some overseas guests.
By Michel Outridge