– alarm triggered, security firm said it was okay, owner says
Despite security precautions, thieves in the early hours of yesterday morning broke into the Krishna’s Auto Spares store on Quamina Street and made off with a large amount of cash, vehicle parts and other equipment.

The thieves gained entrance into the building by breaking through a wooden wall and sometime during the incident, the security alarm was activated but the security firm told the owners that they checked and found that everything was “okay”.

Owner of the store, Krishnadatt Singh while not giving a figure for his losses said that it was substantial. He said he received a telephone call from the security firm around 12.30 am yesterday telling him that the alarm had been tripped. “They said that security checked and everything is okay, but it was not okay when I come,” he asserted.

The wooden wall through which the thieves broke to gain entrance to Khrishna’s Auto Sales.

Singh said he arrived to open the store around 8 am yesterday only to discover the place ransacked and the items gone. Two drawers that contained cash was also cleared out.

Among the items stolen were CD and DVD players, amplifiers, batteries, tool-kits, alarm systems, speakers, among others. The thieves had broken through a wooden wall at the side of the building. Singh said the place was totally ransacked and declared that the thieves had time to pick the items, as the majority of items stolen were high-priced items. “They had a long time and take and choose what they want.”

When Stabroek News visited the business place yesterday, the police were there dusting for fingerprints. This is not the first time that Singh was robbed by thieves. In February this year, gun-toting bandits, help him at gunpoint at the store and made off with a large amount of money.