Bourda multi-million dollar robbery…Police confident of capturing robbers

Apr 05, 2015 News

– “There are a lot of loopholes in the story being told”- police source
Investigators probing the multi-million-dollar robbery which occurred outside the Bourda Post Office, last Wednesday, are confident that they are on the right path in solving this case.

The Bourda Post Office, where the robbery took place.

They also believe that they have their eyes on the “right set of people.”
Kaieteur News was told that investigators are working with information that the robbery might have been a conspiracy between a group of people known to the Guyana Police Force.
A senior investigator said on Friday that the heist may have been planned a few hours before the actual attack was carried out.
He also confirmed that the police escort remains under close arrest while the driver attached to the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) is in police custody.
The two individuals were allegedly dumped on Cemetery Road along with the Post Office van. This was after three armed men jumped into the van while it was outside the Bourda Post Office and drove off with the money, police escort and the driver.
The cop was allegedly relieved of his rifle.
The incident occurred as unsuspecting pensioners were lined up waiting for their monthly allowance.
Yesterday, the police source said that they believed that while the three gunmen jumped into the van and escaped, there might have been other suspects around the area.
“There were people in the line informing the suspects when to approach and we are sure of that. We are getting information that a call was made by a known individual, and this was seconds before the bandits carried out their brazen attack,” the source said.
He added, “This is a strange robbery. No one made any sounds. No one saw any weapons. This thing happened and a man, who was standing right next to the vehicle, didn’t know it was a robbery. There are a lot of loopholes in the story being told.”
The police in a release said that three men armed with handguns held up a police escort and the driver of a GPOC motor vehicle.
According to the police, they were in the vehicle outside the Bourda Post Office located on Regent Street, while in the process of delivering money to the entity.
“The perpetrators took away the policeman’s G3 rifle with 20 rounds and then entered the vehicle and forced the driver to drive away, with the police rank inside,” the police stated.
The men, the police said, abandoned the vehicle along Cemetery Road, Georgetown and took away $90M that was in the vehicle and escaped, along with the policeman’s firearm.
At the scene on Wednesday, two street dwellers said that they noticed two well dressed men standing on the northern side of Regent Street.
The eyewitnesses said that another was in the line standing among the pensioners who were waiting to collect their cash.
“The two was over there watching over. After, the bus pull up and the escort and the money man carry in the two bag” one of the eyewitnesses said, it was then that the bandits pounced.
They said the bus driver had left his door open and the well dressed bandit came and stood by the bus. Shortly after, the accomplice jumped in the passenger seat and the well dressed bandit hopped into the driver’s seat and drove off.
The eyewitnesses told this publication that the third bandit hopped into the bus and they sped off through Orange Walk, Bourda.
Divisional Commander, Clifton Hicken could not be reached for a comment yesterday.