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Jul 08, 2012 News
– jewellery, liquor among items stolen
Burglars bound and gagged a 14-year-old boy who was left at home alone last Friday afternoon before carting off jewellery and other valuables from the family’s Diamond New Scheme, East Bank Demerara property.
The Nineteenth Street, Diamond New Scheme home is that of popular taxi driver, Michael Harris, called ‘Jakey’ who was out with his wife when the robbers struck.
Harris, who is still trying to assess his losses, said that the robbers took some $400,000 in jewellery, two computer speakers, and bottles of liquor and colognes. However, a computer and printer were left untouched. The men were reportedly unarmed save for a claw-bar, which they allegedly used to prise open a briefcase.
Kaieteur News understands that the robbers escaped in a dark-coloured vehicle. Harris believes that the robbery was planned by people who are familiar with his movements.
The lad told Kaieteur News that he was sitting watching television at around 15:30 hrs when the three men entered through the unbolted front door. One of the men had dreadlocks while another, who was carrying a haversack, was wearing a white shirt, blue trousers and a pair of blue slippers.
“The first one came in and hold my mouth down and tell me don’t say nothing,” the lad recalled. According to the boy, the thieves then took a roll of tape from the haversack and proceeded to bind and gag him. They then proceeded to the bedrooms which they ransacked for valuables.
After gathering up their loot, they men exited through the front door. They reportedly then escaped in a vehicle that was parked some distance away. The lad managed to free himself before his parents returned.
Harris’s wife arrived home first and realized something was amiss when she noticed that the computer box, which they had left in a bedroom, was now in the living room. She then observed that the rooms had been ransacked.
Her son, who was sitting in a living room chair, then recounted his ordeal.
The family has lodged a report at the Golden Grove Police Station.
Harris has been living in the area for eight years. His home was broken into some time ago.
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