Latest update January 20th, 2025 4:00 AM
City duo jailed for crime in Berbice
Two city residents who attempted to rob an employee of the Stretch ‘D’ Dollar Supermarket in New Amsterdam last November were yesterday sentenced to two years in jail by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when they appeared before her and were found guilty of attempting to commit a felony, to wit, robbery on Kerry Boucher.
The men, Delon Holder, 24, of North Ruimveldt and Dexter Gibson, 21, of Charlestown and also of North Ruimveldt, were previously remanded.
Dexter Gibson (right) and his accomplice Dellon Holder
Prosecutor Corporal Roberto Figueira told the court that the woman was on her way to the Scotiabank’s New Amsterdam Branch to transact business for her workplace, when in the vicinity of the Bank on Strand, New Amsterdam, she was accosted by the two men, who tried to take away a bag she was carrying. An alarm was raised and public-spirited citizens responded and helped to apprehend the perpetrators.
It is understood that the woman was first accosted by one of the men who pretended to be her boyfriend, and who asked her where she was going. He told her that he wanted his phone and would deal with her when she got home. His accomplice then approached them and the two men braced the woman to a car and started to beat her and attempted to take away a bag she was carrying.
The woman held on to the bag and started to scream, which attracted persons in the vicinity. A security guard at a nearby establishment immediately rushed to the woman’s assistance and wrestled one of the bandits, whom he eventually apprehended – amidst his protestations that the woman was “his girl” and that he was just “roughing her up”.
The other man tried to escape but was apprehended by other passersby, among them a licenced firearm holder. The police were summoned and responded promptly.
During the trial the men gave different addresses at one time they said they were from Kitty and then on another occasion they stated that they were from North Ruimveldt
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