Bandits rob members of returning female hockey team
Armed bandits resumed their activities on Monday committing two robberies in separate parts of the city, as if to challenge the new administration which had campaigned on a promise to crackdown on criminal activity.
In the first robbery, bandits targeted three members of the national female hockey team who had just returned from their tour of Trinidad and Tobago.
According to reports, the females were travelling in a car driven by the husband of one of them when they stopped on Croal Street to make a drop off.
This newspaper was told that the female who was being dropped off was about to open the padlock on her gate when three men came up to the car.
One of the bandits opened the driver’s door and put a gun to his head while demanding cash.
Another bandit went around the car and confronted the female who was just locking back her gate and demanded that she open it, but she ran inside.
The bandit then turned to the other females in the car and told them to hand over their phones and purses, among other things.
The terrified victims complied but requested that the bandits let them keep their passports, which the men did.
The bandits then opened the car trunk and took the luggage and ran back across to their parked car. The luggage was so much that their trunk couldn’t even close because one of the pieces was a bag with goalkeeping equipment.
On hindsight the victims believe that they were followed from the airport, since they recall seeing a car tracing them.
And at about 12:30 hours on Monday an armed security guard and two salesmen attached to Edward B. Beharry Company Ltd. were in Non Pariel, East Coast Demerara conducting business at a shop when they were held up by two men armed with handguns.
The perpetrators took away the security guard’s .32 pistol with 10 rounds along with an undisclosed sum of cash and escaped on a motorcycle.
Both matters were reported and investigations are in progress.
