East Bank Demerara : The police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 1:15 pm today at Guyana Stockfeeds Ltd. at Farm, East Bank Demerara.
The police said that six men, two of whom were armed with shotguns and the others with handguns, entered the business premises and held up Loraine Adams, the private security guard who was on duty, and took away her .38 Taurus service revolver with six rounds. The men then took her inside the building where they held accounts clerk Seepaul Khaloo and seven other employees at gunpoint.
The armed perpetrators then took away six deposit bags containing a total of $10,582,600.00 which was intended to be taken to the bank along with personal cash, cell phones and other valuables from the employees and escaped in a waiting motor car.
Police anti-crime patrols were alerted through the radio network and roadblocks were established at strategic locations.
Quick response by the police acting on information received subsequently led to the arrest of four suspects at the Diamond Sea Dam area in whose possession was found a sum of cash, suspected to be part of the booty. Further investigations resulted in the arrest of a woman at Grove Housing Scheme, EBD, whose motor vehicle PMM 5295 has also been detained by the police, and the arrest of two other men at Grove Housing Scheme.
The police maintained dominance of the area and later recovered another sum of money in a yard at Cinema Street, Diamond, EBD, and arrested two more men who were found hiding among some bush in a swampy area at Diamond.
The motor car suspected to have been used by the perpetrators in their getaway after the robbery, PMM 9668, was found abandoned on the roadway at School Street, Diamond Housing Scheme. A 12 gauge pump action shotgun along with four matching cartridges and a laptop computer were recovered by the police in the vehicle.
Investigations are continuing.
