The three bandits who were shot dead on Friday night during an attempted robbery at Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara had been members of the Buxton/Agricola criminal gang but were mainly ‘look-outs’ who provided intelligence to the more hardened gangsters.
One of the dead bandits is a 16-year-old, Malcolm Junior Alleyne known as “Coolie Boy”. The other two have been identified as eighteen-year-old Kwesi Lewis of 154 Friendship, ECD and twenty-year-old Aubrey Glasgow of Vigilance South. Police say that the teenaged criminals had been involved in a number of armed robberies on the East Coast Demerara, and that Alleyne was wanted pending investigations into a murder.
A resident of Friendship, ECD told Stabroek News yesterday that the teenagers were “look-outs” for the hardened criminals for sometime now. According to the resident it did not come as a surprise that they decided to pick up arms and attempted to rob the Non Pareil family. “Things are not like before, they have to fend for themselves,” the resident said, adding that with the deaths and capture of some of the main players in the gang there wasn’t much work for “look-outs”. Over the years a number of members of the Buxton/Agricola gang have perished during armed confrontations with the police but this did not affect the mobilization of new recruits to the enterprise. The resident said that at present there were a number of young men from as far as Golden Grove, ECD who had been influenced into joining the gang. “Some of them have moved out from their parents’ homes
