Bandits robbed Brazilian of raw gold and cash

Essequibo :  Four masked men armed with shotgun, two handguns and one with a cutlass attacked and robbed a Brazilian National Jucino Nunes, 59 years, of Bovista, Brazil at Aramou Road, Cuyuni.

 

The police say Jucino Nunes who operates a shop at Far Back, Cuyuni, his wife and another female were on an ATV proceeding along the Aramou Road, when the perpetrators emerged from some bushes and took away from Jucino Nunes the ATV, 36 ounces of raw gold and $290,000.00.  They then tied them up and escaped.

   

They were rescued by passersby last night.

 

 Investigations are in progress.